ABSTRACT
Newspaper cartoons have over time played a significant role in social and political public discourse about serious contemporary issues in Kenya. This chapter focuses on Buni media's The XYZ Show joke-cartoons in motion pictures with the aim of disclosing the various socio-political nuances and purposes they bear as they ultimately (re)imagine the contemporary Kenyan postcolony. It analyses selected XYZ Show political joke-cartoons which have been picked by purposive sampling to meet the objective of this study. The chapter proposes to give a general description of these cartoons as a novel popular artform and as one more means of expression, demonstrates that this type of cartoon appeals to a particular public taste that the print sort does not, and why this is so, and examines their contextual socio-political meanings and how these cartoons provide serious commentary on current issues, with Mbembe's postcolony as the theoretical underpinning.
