'Dis No Be Funny': Political Cartoons Panel on Artivism and Afro-Asian (Dis)Connections

The panel discussion brings together talented cartoonists who work in the African continent and in Asia including Singapore, Ghana, and Cameroon. These political cartoonists (Sonny Liew, Bright Ackwerh, Annick Kamgang) discuss their work, it’s connections to their own political environments, and how they are responding to recent post-colonial and global trends. What can these Afro-Asian artistic interventions tell us about the “unfolding of the story of both decolonization and capital” (Watson 2021: 183) as well as the (re) imagining of earlier decolonizing histories, recent anti-democratic political trends, and capitalism? How do they deal multiple forms of censorship (George and Liew 2021), and what do they tell us of the geo-political roles played by global powers such as the US and China (Oduro-Frimpong 2021)? In other words, what do political cartoons and other artistic productions teach us about Africa, Asia and Afro-Asian (dis)connections?