Victor Ndula's latest for Cartoon Movement has been written up over at the Comic Strip Of The Day blog.
But the western media has virtually ignored the politics of oil in West Africa, where the kleptocracies have allied with the oil companies to create a system that is essentially an extension of colonialism: There is little environmental oversight, so that the leakage and pollution that is possible in the Arctic is a widespread, unaddressed reality in Africa, and, while the profits for this extraction go to Africans rather than to European colonial masters, they go to a small elite rather than to the greater population of the nations whose oil is fueling our need for fossil fuel. Read the rest here.
See more of Ndula's work here.
It took us ages to get dressed - we got changed about 3 times before finally settling on a bit of sparkle..."
Posted by: MBT Online | August 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM