*Cartoon Animation and Comedian Artwork Pageant ran from 14th Tuesday to nineteenth November and was hosted, sponsored, and supported by the Lagos Guide and Artwork Pageant, Committee for Related Artwork in Lagos Nigeria.
Cartoonists Affiliation of Nigeria CARTAN having launched its CACAFEST opening had a buzz of many wanting to satisfy a few of their favourite Nigerian cartoonists who showcased their cartoons and artworks on the competition which happened at Freedom Park on Lagos Island.
CARTAN had a powerful array of cartoons on severe topics affecting the polity and the globe. The occasion was made up of works of Nigerian cartoonists in Nigeria and within the diaspora.
The benefit of getting cartoons on show generates curiosity, consciousness, and closeness to cartoonists whose work folks have been studying and seeing. and for collectors to gather. CACAFEST has been receiving visitors viewing cartoons and a few buying cartoons. Names of Nigerian cartoonists who had their work exhibited included, Kingsley Kalu Mba, Samuel Ojo, Gabriel Erapi, Kehinde Omotosho, Oladejo Akande, Kingsley Okoronkwo Kaycee, Mike Asukwo, Albert Ohams, Mustapha Bulama, Chino Obasi, Dada Adekola, Olufemi Arowolo, Ganiyu Jimoh Jimga, Ikogbode Sumaina, Leke Moses, Tayo Fatunla, Francis Odupute, Don Marvel Mudiaga, Jimoh Samsideen, Morak Oguntade, Olanrewaju Gafar, Olorunfemi Adedeji, Victor Asowata, Segun Awosiyan and Adewale Adebiyi.
The artwork of Cartooning has come a good distance in Nigeria which Akinola Lasekan began a number of years in the past.
Dada Adekola is the present President of the Cartoonists Affiliation of Nigeria who attracts for Vanguard newspapers.
TAYO Fatunla whose work has been featured on MSN.com through EURweb.com is an award-winning British-Nigerian Comedian Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Author, and Illustrator and is an artist of the African diaspora. He’s a graduate of the distinguished Kubert Faculty, in New Jersey, US, and recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and sequence – Well-known folks in Black Historical past – He participated at UNESCO’s Cartooning In Africa discussion board held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Cartooning International Discussion board in Paris, France and has held a digital OUR ROOTS cartoon workshop for SMITHSONIAN- Nationwide Museum of African Artwork, Washington D.C. His Fela Kuti picture is prominently featured in Burna Boy’s mega-Afrobeat hit tune “Ye”. – https://www.instagram.com/tfatunla123
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