Cartooning for Africa Facts

Cartooning for Peace is working with CFI and Africa Check on the “Cartooning for Africa Facts” project to combat misinformation and hate speech on the African continent.

This 25-month project is part of a wider programme, “Désinfox Youth”, led by CFI and aimed at implementing various “pilot actions in the field of media and information education as a tool against information manipulation and hate speech”.

Working in partnership with the pan-African organisation Africa Check, Cartooning for Peace plans to use the strengths of press cartoons to raise awareness of these issues among the African population and counter misinformation. This initiative includes the creation of a fact-checker’s manual illustrated with press cartoons, the illustration of Africa Check’s verification reports with press cartoons, and the launch of a “press cartoon and fact-checking” prize at the Africa Facts 2025 Summit.

At the Africa Facts 2023 Summit in Mauritius, Cartooning for Peace announced the “Cartooning for Africa Facts” project, presented the first fact-checking reports illustrated with press cartoons, and raised awareness among fact-checkers of the role that press cartoons can play in the fight against disinformation.

30 fact-checking articles illustrated,

in 5 countries of Africa

• The DRC organisation Balobaki Check is launching a series in March 2025: Echo from the DRC – Impact of attacks on the integrity of information in the crisis in the east of the country, illustrated by Cartooning for Peace.
• The Zimbabwean organisation ZimFact lists articles illustrated with press cartoons on its website.
• Cartooning for Peace illustrates the fact-checking reports produced in December 2023 by the Democratic Republic of Congo organisation Balobaki Check, as part of the campaign for the presidential elections in the DRC.

Cartoon: Celeste (Kenya)