Cartoonists & Poets are #DrawingBlood in Protest of Violence & Killings in Nigeria
The Arts & Civics Table (TACT) in collaboration with the Cartoonists Association of Nigeria (CARTAN) has kicked off a cartoon campaign against the ongoing killings and violence in the country.
The campaign is tagged #DrawingBlood, and it involves cartoonists and poets sharing cartoons and poems condemning the loss of lives in the nation.
The campaign will take place over the next 6 months, and will lead up to the Nigerian Satire Festival in November.
The #DrawingBlood campaign will promote artists and cartoonists utilizing RED as the main colour theme in their work. The campaign will also feature satirical art works in other formats.
Cartoonists and other satirists are encouraged join in this campaign by using the colour RED in their work from today, and by posting their cartoons online and offline using the hashtag #DrawingBlood.
It is our way of saying “We have had enough of bloodshed in Nigeria.”
See some of the posts below:
...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee - #Poetry by John Donne#DrawingBlood by Enrico Bertuccioli pic.twitter.com/MCBjPRzgXZ
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. - Lewis H. Lapham#DrawingBlood by Boye Gbenro pic.twitter.com/5MeoMNp75B
...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee - #Poetry by John Donne#DrawingBlood by Leke Moses pic.twitter.com/bCO0YQoWoI
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars - Martin Luther King, JR#DrawingBlood by @alexfalcoch pic.twitter.com/69MPoyYoMV
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. - Lewis H. Lapham#DrawingBlood by Boye Gbenro pic.twitter.com/5MeoMNp75B
Of all tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence - John Foster Dulles#DrawingBlood by @Asukwoeb pic.twitter.com/TqpRdkqbik
Of all tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence - John Foster Dulles#DrawingBlood by @Asukwoeb pic.twitter.com/TqpRdkqbik
What will is cost to stop these deaths?
A hundred babies full of lead?
A thousand drums of crude or less?
The land is grim, the soil is red!
It seems these lives aren't worth the stress
Until they're gone. Long live the dead. #Poetry by @OUzuazo#DrawingBlood by Michael Olumba pic.twitter.com/qgaHNP49ut
What will is cost to stop these deaths?
A hundred babies full of lead?
A thousand drums of crude or less?
The land is grim, the soil is red!
It seems these lives aren't worth the stress
Until they're gone. Long live the dead. #Poetry by @OUzuazo#DrawingBlood by Michael Olumba pic.twitter.com/qgaHNP49ut
Mother you said
It's okay to hope and not to hope
And watch hope bring hope to hopeless
Yet it's okay to hope and not to hope.
In the dead of the night they came at cock crow
Father, mother, brother, sister, blooded bladed bodies#DrawingBlood #Poetry by @lordahog pic.twitter.com/US519lYdww
Mother you said
It's okay to hope and not to hope
And watch hope bring hope to hopeless
Yet it's okay to hope and not to hope.
In the dead of the night they came at cock crow
Father, mother, brother, sister, blooded bladed bodies#DrawingBlood #Poetry by @lordahog pic.twitter.com/US519lYdww
To replace the old paradigm of war with a new one of waging peace, we must be pioneers who push the boundaries of human understanding. We must be doctors who cure the virus of violence, & artists who will make the world our masterpiece-Paul Chappell#DrawingBlood by @alexfalcoch pic.twitter.com/s4fN4XkRD6
To replace the old paradigm of war with a new one of waging peace, we must be pioneers who push the boundaries of human understanding. We must be doctors who cure the virus of violence, & artists who will make the world our masterpiece-Paul Chappell#DrawingBlood by @alexfalcoch pic.twitter.com/s4fN4XkRD6
Of all tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence - John Foster Dulles#DrawingBlood by Nath Ngerem pic.twitter.com/Y1az2IyAtB
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival - Winston Churchill#DrawingBlood by Fadi Abou Hassan pic.twitter.com/jWTjCYL451
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks - Samuel Adams#DrawingBlood by Moses Osawe pic.twitter.com/UlMz8BpBcR
Injustice Came to Megacity
Life was bliss in the metropolis
Like shell-tered snails we drooled at ease
Save for Tax Man’s dog on one’s scent
And swelling squalor on our busy street#DrawingBlood #Poetry by @toyosilagos pic.twitter.com/Xo7j3ycIIr
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival - Winston Churchill#DrawingBlood by Fadi Abou Hassan pic.twitter.com/jWTjCYL451
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks - Samuel Adams#DrawingBlood by Moses Osawe pic.twitter.com/UlMz8BpBcR
You cannot inject new ideas into a man’s head by chopping it off; neither will you infuse a new spirit into his heart by piercing it with a dagger - Louis Fischer#DrawingBlood by Oguz Gurel pic.twitter.com/usLDFO752P
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. - Lewis H. Lapham#DrawingBlood by Atiq Shahid pic.twitter.com/QxrcSWO26A
Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference - Carrie P. Meek#DrawingBlood by Segun Awosiyan pic.twitter.com/nnFPooLbgi
Stop the bloodshed in Nigeria!#DrawingBlood by Nd'Usoro pic.twitter.com/Iuqra8LPTr
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