CPJ Africa Program Staff - Committee to Protect Journalists

A man reads a copy of Kenyan daily, the Nation. Gado, whose political cartoons were regularly featured in it, says his contract with the paper was terminated. (AP/Ben Curtis)

Gado blames government pressure as cartoonist’s contract at Kenya’s Nation ends

March 17, 2016 5:47 PM EDT

For 23 years Godfrey Mwampembwa has been a prominent and quick-witted observer of the political scene in East Africa. But all that changed last month when the cartoonist, known as Gado, was told his contract at Kenya’s biggest newspapers, the Nation, would not be renewed.