Africa-Press – Lesotho. The president is a gun-toting dairy farmer who is milking his “cowntry” dry. His brother takes the form of a pair of sinister sunglasses eyeing the national pension fund.
His son is a toddler in an oversize army hat who has not learned to tie his shoelaces. Or so they appear in the imagination of Chrisogon Atukwasize, the man with the sharpest pencil in Uganda.
Signing himself “Ogon”, he uses his cartoons in the Daily Monitor newspaper to shame the corrupt and upbraid the powerful. Last year soldiers kidnapped and tortured the writer of a satirical novel which featured one of his illustrations on the front cover.
They were said to have also made inquiries about Ogon. He responded with a sketch of a torturer drawn as one of the Minions—characters in “Despicable Me”, an animated-film franchise—struggling to read the offending book.
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