Crisis...? what Crisis?

No weapon is as potent in the hands of the weak as humour. It is subversive in the manner it speaks truth to power and is almost impossible to suppress. In the hands of the cartoonist Gado, there have been few weapons in the arsenal of the ordinary person in Kenya as powerful as his cartoons, which have managed the feat of serving up a critique of the elite in a way which it is difficult to imagine one doing in any other medium. Gado has been a mainstay of the national dialogue since the 1990s during the bleakest years of the Moi dictatorship and he has continues his sharp-eyed observation of society in the post-Kanu era. In his latest work "Crisis...? What Crisis?!", Gado focuses on the events that shaped Kenya in the pivotal years leading up to--and after--the disastrous 2007 election. A wide range of topics are covered such as the country's grand coalition government and its new constitution, the International Criminal Court and its tough-talking retiring Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, corruption in all its forms, Obama-mania, the antics of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, and the growing Chinese presence in Africa. Comprising several previously unpublished works, and enriched by anecdotes about Gado's experience analysing events that are sometimes so absurd they could "only have happened in Kenya", this collection of cartoons manages to be both harshly critical of its subjects and yet displays a healthy dose of good-natured optimism for what Kenya could yet become.

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