With no obvious option to buy dad a copy of the Racing Post and leave well enough alone, it's up to you to go around, picking up stuff, mashing it together, and using the slightly tacked-on device of your father's astronomy charts to get things to happen. Still, in this medieval puzzle-solving affair, you play the famous seer's daughter, Madeleine, who gets roped in to stop her dad's last, and most disastrous, prophecy from coming true. What he probably didn't predict was that he would be commemorated in a point-and-click adventure for the PC. The Great Fire of London, Napoleon's empire and the rise of the Third Reich. September 2015.Nostradamus predicted a fair few things in his time. On the occasion of Nigeria’s independence anniversary this year 2015, Jimga is our trustworthy guide in envisioning the change the country needs. Very few Nigerian cartoonists occupy this location, or do it so self-assuredly. Immature politicking where it is exactly the opposite that the people need. Yet it is upon this engrossing thematic and stylistic evocation of childhood that a smart and sharp political commentary is built, in cartoon after cartoon, in an accessible manner. Scenarios of childhood, adults behaving like kids, animal imagery, dramatic binary imaging (the big vs the small, etc), the primary cartoon line which sparkles even in poignant matters, and the splashy elementary school text book colors. Take for instance what is perhaps the defining feature, at the levels of both theme and style, of Jimga’s cartoons: a relentless evocation of the visuality of childhood in a decidedly adult cartoon universe. He has very creatively digested that multi-sided and raucously lively tradition into a style that is so distinctively, engagingly, and very admirably his own. Jimga has absorbed in subtle ways patterns of classic Nigerian cartooning, from Akinola Lasekan to Josy Ajiboye, dele jegede, Bisi Ogunbadejo, and more. When a child has washed her hands well, the canon of wisdom says, she would feast plenty with the elders. And without question, his future in the art of cartooning in Africa is extremely bright. Jimga and “The Change We Need” Tejumola Olaniyan Louise Durham Mead Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Jimga is a terrific cartoonist, one of the really accomplished of the generation of cartoonists that emerged in the last one decade in Nigeria.
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