ONE OF MALAWI'S GREATEST CARTOONISTS

Vic Kasinja was an amazing cartoonist from Malawi.He used his work to confront the social issues of HIV,prostitution,drug abuse and infedility. Vic Kasinja dropped out of school due to excessive bullying, and was a self-taught artist, working in charcoal. As a graphic designer in 1981 he was discovered by the operator ofThe Daily Times and Malawi News, David Tarttersall; the News began running his feature Joza soon after. In 1997, upon a request from a Daily Times editor, he created the feature Taxina, whose name-as-title lead was a provocatively dressed woman with a highly sexual public persona. Controversial because of the subject matter, Kasinja saw his lead as a symbol for the explosion of free expression as his home country embraced democracy in the mid-1990s.He also published a book of the Joza work and made a cartoon under the direction of the United Nations. Vic Kasinja died in 2007.Some of his work include;