satirist
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Examples of his work include the cartoon below where he satirised a period of great uncertainty within the government in 2001 when officials including senior ministers were "frozen out" and recalled without warning:
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
In 1977, after the release of the album Zombie, which satirised government soldiers as obedient, brainless enforcers, his compound in the main city, Lagos, was raided.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Still, the nightmarish journey of the Moskalyov family through the minefield of provincial Russian bureaucracy, a theme writer Nikolai Gogol satirised in the 19th Century, has struck a chord with Russians.
From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2023
But the Czech government did not care to be satirised in this direct way and the whole subject was tactlessly close to the Maoist cultural revolution.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2020
I satirised Jarír, but he considered me too young for him to notice.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
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