Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013)

Click on the cartoon to listen to NIgerian playwright Biyi Bandele talk about Achebe and the profound influence Achebe had on younger NIgerian writers, like Bandele.  And listen to Achebe himself in earlier interviews… 

Cartoon: Taylo Fatunla, Nigeria/UK (Courtesy: Africartoons)

Check out my colleague Patrick Cox’s ‘World in Words’ podcast. You’ll hear me in this episode. I (Cartoon Queen Carol Hills) co-host the ‘cast each month with Patrick. We chew over language stories in the news and though we’re neither linguists nor academics we have a lot of fun.

Turkish cartoonist Hilmi Simsek on the problem of violence against women.

Really cool strange maps and an interview with the connoisseur of strange maps: Frank Jacobs of the blog called “Strange Maps”. 

Obama’s victory is tempered by the fractured nature of the country he gets to preside over for another four years. Cartoon by Patrick Chappatte of Switzerland.

A familiar image from the campaign with a reversal of fortune for Mitt Romney.

The freedom to hate freedom of speech seems to be the message of this cartoon by Norway’s Roar Hagen.