Popa Matumula Decries Lack Of Seriousness Regarding Cartoonists

I noted with some interest this puff piece on the Pan-African Festival of Culture in Algiers because deep in its body there are a couple of graphs from Tanzania's Popa Matumula, one of the very best of this generation of African cartoonist, saying that cartoonists in general are disrespected by the leaders of African society. This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First, this runs counter to conventional wisdom no doubt formed by updates on whatever Zapiro is doing and some awful thing happening to a press or newspaper in Africa that would seem to say that cartoonists are taken very seriously in Africa. The second is that I trust Matumula to have an interesting and worth-hearingt perspective on this, as if I remember correctly from reading a very good interview with him earlier this year, he not only is the current standard-bearer for cartooning as a political commentary tool in the Tanzanian press, his career basically encompasses the entire history of private press in that country. He would likely be keenly aware of how he's perceived, and others like him. Anyway, one to note.
 
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