'30 days of ‘graphic activism’

During the countdown to the Zimbabwe 2000 elections I produced around 50 ‘graphic commentaries’ in an attempt to chronicle and highlight the many issues that shaped the reality and atmosphere of our predicament with one aim in mind, — to raise the consciousness of our situation and similar ones in the world at large. These were distributed daily by email on the internet.

As a project, this began on 25 May 2000 — the day the voter delimitation zones where announced and went on for 30 days until the eve of the elections. By spending about an hour or two a day on a simple graphic comment related to our situation, I felt I could contribute something through the positive use of design to bring about some awareness to the abuse and violations of our rights being perpetrated in Zimbabwe.

Also given the absolute lack of voter education/information around, which should be the duty of any responsible government except ours, (as this would contradict every aspect of their violent campaign) I also wanted to disseminate ideas out there for interested civic rights groups and individuals to harvest and even use in some way if they could.

15 images are shown here, the full series can be seen at www.AgitNet.org