This slide show features some of Zapiro’s editorial cartoons. A staunch defender of freedom of expression, Jonathan Shapiro takes on the government, political parties, and big business.
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This slide show features some of Tony Namate’s editorial cartoons. Namate recently published a book of his cartoons, The Emperor’s New Clods: Political Cartoons from Zimbabwe.
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Editorial cartoonists talk about their careers and challenges. Featuring Tony Namate (Zimbabwe), Alfredo Pong (Cuba), Pedro León Zapata (Venezuela), Aw Pi Kyeh (Burma), Jonathan Shapiro aka Zapiro (South Africa).
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In September of 2001, with the global media’s eye fixed on 9/11, independent newspapers were closed and ten journalists imprisoned. This slide show features the six journalists still in prison and the four who died in jail.
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On September 1st two female journalists connected to the political magazine, Contralinea, were found murdered in a Mexico City park. According to Reporters Without Borders, eighty journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000.
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The following selection of Sampsonia Way author interviews published in 2011 feature diverse voices from around the world sharing their views on the creative process, politics and culture, and their own struggle to defend freedom of expression.
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Political prisoners of Cuba’s Black Spring have been freed, but for some life in exile has hardly improved since being released from prison. Most of the activists were forced to accept exile as a condition of their release.
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