Sidelines
© the artist | Sep 28, 1960
Khruschev and Eisenhower in Africa
COLD COMFORT: This brilliant PUNCH cartoon turns the tables on a slavery theme to show the crude measures by which African states would select their ideological partners during the Cold War. The USSR's Nikita Khrushchev and the USA's Ike Eisenhower initiated a new scramble for Africa as they sought an ideological foothold for their respective causes on the fragile continent.