About Jimga

Ganiyu Jimoh, also known as Jimga, is a political cartoonist, digital artist, and scholar with several local and international exhibitions to his credit. Jimga holds a B.A. in Graphic Design, an M.A. in Art History, and a Ph.D. in Visual Arts, all from the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria. He taught undergraduate and graduate-level design, cartooning, and African art history courses at the Department of Creative Arts, UNILAG. He was a visiting scholar at the African Studies Center, Michigan States University, in 2015, a National Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rhodes University, South Africa, a recipient of the African Studies Association presidential fellowship both in 2019, and a CAA-Getty International Program participant in 2020. Jimga is currently in a second doctoral research program and an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia.




Exhibitions:

• 2022 “In a Pot of Hot Soup.” Brunel Gallery, School of Arts and Oriental Studies, London, United Kingdom. April 7 – June 25.
• 2022 The Fralin Little Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. April 29 – May 29.
• 2022 “I Miss You” Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany. April – June 2022.
• 2022 RESIST! The Art of Resistance. Koln, Germany, from April 1st, 2021, to January 2022
• 2021 “Vermisst in Benin: an artistic intervention by Emeka Ogboh.” November 2021 – January 2022.
• 2020 Drawing the Line for Free Speech: A Reflection of Nigeria at 60. Virtual exhibition organized by the Cartoonists Association of Nigeria from October 1 – 30, 2020.
• 2019 On & On Exhibition by visual arts Lecturers, Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos. Held at the Lagoon Gallery, University of Lagos, between July and September 2019.
• 2019 International Cartoonist festival (first edition), held at Ferizaj, Kosovo. May 2019.
• 2016 AfriKuti Exhibition of African Contemporary Comics. The Helsinki Comics Centre, Finland. September 12 – October 1, 2016.
• 2016 Regional Fulbright Workshop and Education USA College Fair Art Exhibition. Themed: “Good Governance and Education,” University of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria. January 19 -21, 2016.
• 2014 Kongi at 80 Art Exhibition. JP Clark Centre, Faculty of Arts, the University of Lagos. July 10th -30th, 2014.
• 2013 The Story of The Creative, 2013. International digital exhibition of art. Held at 26-29 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, New York, NY 11101, United States of America. Between July 23rd and September 10th, 2013.
• 2013 ‘Change the Perspective African Unity- Illusion and Myth or Imperative and Opportunity. Cartoon exhibition organized by The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Addis Ababa Office, in coordination with Third World Journalist Net and Goethe Institute. Held at Goethe Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. June 13-26, 2013.
• 2010 4th Nigerian Universities Research and Development Fair, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. November 2010.
• 2008 “Articulation,” Final Year Exhibition, University of Lagos 5th – 8th October 2008.

Solo Exhibitions:

• 2015 The Change We need. International Center. Michigan State University. USA. October 1st -30th, 2015. Exhibition Artworks archived at Special Comic Collection Unit, Michigan State University Library. East Lansing.
• 2013 Our National Flag, An Exhibition of Socio-Political cartoons, Arts Theatre Foyer, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos. February 21, 2013, to March 4, 2013.
• 2011 Naija Visual Fm: An Exhibition of Socio-Political cartoons, at the 7th edition of the University of Lagos Annual Research Conference and Fair held between October 19 and 21, 2011.
• 2010 Exhibition of Cartoons at the Seminar on “Info Tech in The Electoral Process, Empowerment, and Leadership: The Roles of The Nigerian Youth.” Organized by 1 Thumb non-governmental organization, at The Main Auditorium, University of Lagos, on the 17th of December 2010.
• 2010 Cartoon Exhibition at the 4th Nigerian Universities Research and Development Fair (NURESDEF), held at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, between November 22 and 25, 2010.

Publications:

• Journal Articles2020 “Lampooning Socio-Political Realities: Cartoons in Nigeria and South Africa.” Oye: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture, Vol.2, No.1 (November 2020): 51 -66.
• 2020 “Beyond Entertainment; Nigerian Democratization Process in The Jesters' Space (1983 - 1999)”. The Artist Journal (Taj) Volume. 4, No. 1 (April 2020): 1 -11.
• 2019 “Masked in Metaphors: Counter-Narratives in the Works of Nigerian Cartoonist Mike Asukwo.” African Arts, Vol. 52 (2) (Summer 2019): 32 -39.
• 2019 “Virtual Activism: Internet Memes and Political Discourse in Nigeria”. The Artist Journal (Taj) Volume. 3, No. 1 (April 2019): 115 -125.
• 2018 “Josy Ajiboye: The Reluctant Cartoonist and Social Commentaries in Postcolonial Nigeria,” International Journal of Comic Art. Vol. 20 (1): 242 -254.
• 2017 Osanyin, Florence and Ganiyu Jimoh. “Teachable from Trashables: Exploring Waste Materials in the Construction of Instructional Aids in Early Childhood Education” Eyo Journal of Arts and Humanities. Vol. 3 (1).
• 2015 “Image, Metaphor and Narratives: Pop-Cultural Elements in Political Cartoons,” Eyo Journal of Arts and Humanities. Vol. 1 (1). ISBN: 2476-8278 : 89-99.
• 2014 “I Voted Only for the Head Too: Visual Satire and Democratic Governance in Africa” International Journal of Comic Art. Vol. 16 (1), spring. ISBN: 1531-6793: 431-444.
• 2013 “No Laughing Matter: Editorial Cartoons and The Nigerian Democratization Process’ Essays in History, A Journal of the Students’ Historical Society of Nigeria, University of Lagos Chapter. Vol. 9. (1) ISSN: 1115-2192. Pp 153-171

Exhibition Catalogue

• 2015 The Change We Need. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by African cartoon scholars. African Studies Centre, Michigan State University. USA. ISBN. 978-0-692-53476-2.
• 2013 Our National Flag: Arts and Socio-Political Realities. NeronetPlus Int. Ltd. Lagos.

Book Chapters Contribution:

• 2020 “We Want More Cola: Akinola Lasekan and Nigerian Colonial Realities,” in Akinola Lasekan: Cartooning, Art and Nationalism at The Dawn of A New Nigeria. Eds Dele Jegede and Aderonke Adesanya. Bookcraft, Ibadan.
• 2018 “Wetin' You Carry? The Nigeria Police Force in Cartoonists’ Space,” in Taking African Cartoons Seriously: Politics, Satire, and Culture. Eds Peter Limb and Tejumola Olaniyan. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI.

Interviews & Coverage of Creative Works

• Eurweb online magazine, Los Angeles, CA -90041 – USA
• BusinessDay Newspaper (Online and Prints) Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana.
• The Guardian (Online and Print) Lagos, Nigeria.
• The International Podcast Interview titled Diplomacy and Statecraft in Early Modern Africa By Obinna Chukwu
• African Past Present - Episode 095 - Nigerian Politics and Society in Cartoon Art
• Africa Cartoons - Online Encyclopedia of African Political Cartooning
• National Mirror (Online and Print) Lagos, Nigeria.
• Onepage Africa (Online and Print) Lagos, Nigeria
• Daily Art Magazine (online)


Scholarly Exploration of My Creative Works

• Savoy, Bénédicte, Felicity Bodenstein, and Merten Lagatz (2024), editors. Translocations: Histories of Dislocated Cultural Assets. 1. Auflage, transcript.
• Möntmann, Nina, and Gerrit Jackson (2023). Decentring the Museum: Contemporary Art Institutions and Colonial Legacies. Lund Humphries.
• Joy, C. (2020). Heritage Justice (Elements in Critical Heritage Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108900669.
• Layiwola, Peju (2014). “Making Meaning from a Fragmented Past: 1897 and the Creative Process, Disturbing Pasts: Memories, controversies and Creativity”. Open Arts Journal, Summer Issue 3, 86-96.
• Balogun, Lekan (2015) “Duncanean Art and Why the Macbeths Will Always Fail: Jimga, Cartoons And The Chronicle of Nigeria’s Histo-Political Reality” in The Change We Need. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by African cartoon scholars by Ganiyu Jimoh. African Studies Centre, Michigan State University. MI
• Adebolujo, Oladeji (2015) “Reflections on Ganiyu Jimoh’s Selected Cartoons of Socio-Political Realities in Contemporary Nigeria.” in The Change We Need. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by African cartoon scholars by Ganiyu Jimoh. African Studies Centre, Michigan State University. MI
• James, Sunday (2015) “Jimga’s Cartoons: A Historical Documentation and Diary of Our Time.” in The Change We Need. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by African cartoon scholars by Ganiyu Jimoh. African Studies Centre, Michigan State University. MI
• Itsewah, Steve (2015) “Jimoh Ganyu: A Cartoonist-Playwright.” in The Change We Need. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by African cartoon scholars by Ganiyu Jimoh. African Studies Centre, Michigan State University. MI
• Olaniyan, Tejumola. (2013). “On Ganiyu Akinloye Jimoh’s Political Cartons” in Our National Flag: Arts and Socio-Political Realities. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by Ganiyu jimoh. NeronetPlus Int. Ltd. Lagos.
• Anogwih, Jude (2013). “Reflect, understand and laugh: Jimga (Jimoh Ganiyu Akinloye)” in Our National Flag: Arts and Socio-Political Realities. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by Ganiyu jimoh. NeronetPlus Int. Ltd. Lagos.
• Onipede, Akinwale (2013). “The Changing Relevance of Cartoons and Cartoonists in Nigeria” in Our National Flag: Arts and Socio-Political Realities. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by Ganiyu jimoh. NeronetPlus Int. Ltd. Lagos.
• Otun, Rasheed (2013). “Cartoon As Drama: From Who is Afriad of Osanyin? To Wait Today” in Our National Flag: Arts and Socio-Political Realities. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by Ganiyu jimoh. NeronetPlus Int. Ltd. Lagos.
• Udenta, Omoligho (2013). “Of Cartoons, Cartooning and Jimoh Ganiyu” in Our National Flag: Arts and Socio-Political Realities. An exhibition brochure featuring Scholarly essays by Ganiyu jimoh. NeronetPlus Int. Ltd. Lagos.