Abstract
/ This article analyses cartoon images of African political leaders published in three African satirical newspapers: Le Cafard libéré (The Liberated Cockroach) of Senegal, Le Messager Popoli (Popoli Messenger) of Cameroon and Le Marabout (The Marabou) of Burkina Faso, and one `traditional newspaper', The Daily Nation of Nairobi, Kenya, during the post-Cold War period (1995—2004). The cartoons used transilience, the African narrative device whereby human beings are given animal attributes for purposes of satire, and `deterritorialization', whereby they are symbolically taken out of their natural `territories' in order to denounce the excesses of authoritarianism. Transilience and deterritorialization are counter-discourses that present the idea that authoritarianism is animalistic and self-destructive.
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