Eye Magazine

Leaving through this compendium of 900 posters, many produced in Africa but some in Europe, I paused at length on one poster. It was the urgency of the poster’s message that struck me, despite its obvious vintage. Set against a red backdrop, a black man directly engages the viewer with a piercing gaze, his mouth gagged. Below the illustration, set against the right margin, is a terse bit of German copy which reads: ‘Freiheit für Zimbabwe’, or ‘Freedom for Zimbabwe’. Despite the fact that the poster was produced in the late 1970s and was fashioned after a sticker made in Britain in 1976, the words still resonate. [...]