1ST CARTOON AFRICA INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL FESTIVAL 2012

[Василий Александров]

RESULTS OF THE 1ST CARTOON AFRICA INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL FESTIVAL 2012

CAIB International Press Release. 1st January, 2013:
It was indeed one of the most challenging creative and intellectual tasks of their lives in one sitting - selecting the best from a bunch of bests. But for some 5 complete hours in a stretch, a steep eight-man jury (led by international awards-winning cartoon journalist and artist, Francis Umendu Odupute, the initiator and curator of the first ever international Humour Art biennial festival /contest in Africa: CARTOON AFRICA INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL (CAIB), graded and selected what they regarded as the “groundbreakers” in a history-making communication art strategy deploying cartoons and humour Art to collaboratively push for sustainable development in Africa, and to promote African cartooning culture, artistic excellence and cultural exchanges in a global context, within the prism of humour.
The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), through the National Museum, Benin City, Edo State, provided the venue/space for the CAIB-2012 jury exercise with some of its Exhibition Unit staff fully involved to ensure the comfort of all jury members and that the selection process went in line with international best practices and in conformity with the thematic framework of the CAIB 2012 programme. Finally, the following results emerged from the office of the CAIB-2012 Central Working Committee:

**1.CARICATURE CATEGORY:
“CELEBRATING AFRICAN HEROES & HEROINES”
FIRST POSITION: “A DOVE FOR MANDELA” by Mariagrazia “Gio”Quaranta (Italy)
SECOND POSITION: “AFRICAN CARAVANSERAI: THE NOBEL PEACE 2011: TAWAKKUL KARMAN, ELLEN JOHNSON SIELEAF, AND LEYMAH GBOWEE” by Zordan Daniele’s (Vicenza)
THIRD POSITION: “MANDELA” by Marco D’Agostino (Italy)
*HONOURABLE MENTION: “ROBERT MANGALISO SABUKWE” by Erico Junqueira Ayres (Brazil)

**2.EDITORIAL CARTOON/COMIC STRIPS CATEGORY:
-A.“ AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN”
FIRST POSITION: “NO MORE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN” by Thubelihle Hlela (South Africa)
SECOND POSITION: “UNTITLED” by Asukwo, EB (Nigeria)
THIRD POSITION: “WHERE’S HER EYE” by Ismail Kar (Turkey)
*HONOURABLE MENTION:
1. “BEAUTIFUL SHACKLES” by Bing Ling (China)
2. “UNTITLED” by Serpil Kar (Turkey)
3. “UNTITLED” by Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine)
-B.“THE AFRICA I SEE”
FIRST POSITION: “UNTITLED” by Andrzej Pacult (USA)
SECOND POSITION: “OIL FOR FOOD” by Mariagrazia “Gio” Quaranta (Italy)
THIRD POSITION: “GOVERNMENTS OF THE AFRICA” by Erico Junqueira Ayres (Brazil)
*HONOURABLE MENTION:
1. “FUTURE” by AndreaBersani (Italy)
2. “ALWAYS THE SAME” by Raquel Orzuj (Uruguay)
3. “UNTITLED” by Boubaya Ali Faiz (Algeria)
-C.FREE THEME
FIRST POSITION: “UNTITLED” by Ismail Hasan (Syria)
SECOND POSITION: “THE HUMANITARIAN HELP” by Makhmudjon Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan)
THIRD POSITION: “HYJACKING NOT THE ANSWER” by William H. Lockett (USA)
*HONOURABLE MENTION:
1. “LAGOS RESIDENTS…” by John Otu (Nigeria)
2. “SURVIVAL SCHOOL” by Valery Chmyriov (Ukraine)
3. “UNTITLED” by Hao Yanpeng (China)
4. “UNTITLED” by Oğuz Gurel (Turkey)



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