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Fence
Sittin' by
Luke Warm was published weekly by Mmegi newspaper
in Botswana from 1990-2 and won the 1990 Botswana
Press Trust Cartoon Award. Mmegi is run by an
independent trust and is the most respected
newspaper in Botswana. It is rightly regarded as
the campaigning conscience of the media.
Fence Sittin'
covered national and international political and
social issues including the minimum wage, the poor
state of the health service, government corruption,
excessive military spending, government bias and
censorship in the media, aids, apartheid
etc.
A book of over 90
of these cartoons with accompanying text by Titus
Mbuya, editor of Mmegi, is print ready but in need
of a publisher. The book was to have been published
in Botswana in 1993 but both the original local
publisher and then his printer pulled out of the
venture. Most publishing in Botswana is government
contracts.
If you'd like to
help see this project through please contact
Luke
Warm.
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