OUR ROOTS, which paperwork Black Historical past, has since appeared in quite a few publications, together with the Sacramento Observer, the Information Sentinel, Atlanta Voice, Christian Science Monitor, New African, and BBC Deal with Africa.
In 2008, it started operating on EURweb.com after Boondocks cartoons ended, with writer Lee Bailey rapidly appreciating the influence of the Black historical past cartoons by Tayo Fatunla.
This February, OUR ROOTS returned to the New York Amsterdam Information for Black Historical past Month, accompanied by a slideshow of chosen illustrations on-line.
As Jerry Robinson as soon as acknowledged, “Tayo Fatunla’s OUR ROOTS itself deserves recognition for its distinctive contribution, by way of artwork and journalism, to racial understanding.”
TAYO Fatunla is a British Nigerian comedian artist, editorial cartoonist, author, and illustrator whose work has featured on MSN.com by way of EURweb.com. He created the “OUR ROOTS” sequence, highlighting Black historical past figures, incomes the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award. A former cartoonist for Nigerian newspapers, he was named Skilled Inventive Cartoonist of the Yr on the 2024 Annual Achievement Recognition Awards (The Constructing Blocks Initiative, UK). He additionally illustrated Camberwell’s public Black historical past stroll map. https://www.instagram.com/tfatunla123
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