Adenle Adewale's biography

Adenle Adewale

Nigerian Desk

Adewale Adenle studied art at Yaba College of Technology, in Lagos. As a 2000 Reuter Foundation Fellow, he completed an instructive training program in journalism and news graphics at the University of Navarra/Malofiej workshops in Pamplona, Spain, as well as gained working experience in London. He has been drawing cartoons on a regular basis since 1985 and has worked for the Guardian Express, Daily Times, TNT, The Post Express, and This Day newspapers in Nigeria. He was also a stringer with the London based New African magazine. He was a two-time resource person for the Freedom Forum, sponsored by CRN, led a cartoonists workshop in Douala, Cameroon, and his paintings and cartoons have been widely seen around the world. His numerous awards include a first prize in the Academy Press National Visual Arts Competition in 1991, the Guinness Nigeria award for outstanding works of art in 1994, and the Nigerian Medi! a Merit Award Commendation in the Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe Prize for the cartoonist of the year in 1998 and 1999. Adewale is the Director of Cartoonists' Rights Initiative (affiliated to CRN International) and the founding President of the Cartoonists Association of Nigeria, CARTAN.

Adewale Adenle joined WittyWorld in 2002.

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		*Adenle Adewale*
		Nigerian Desk

Adewale Adenle studied art at Yaba College of Technology, in Lagos. As a 2000 Reuter Foundation Fellow, he completed an instructive training program in journalism and news graphics at the University of Navarra/Malofiej workshops in Pamplona, Spain, as well as gained working experience in London. He has been drawing cartoons on a regular basis since 1985 and has worked for the Guardian Express, Daily Times, TNT, The Post Express, and This Day newspapers in Nigeria. He was also a stringer with the London based New African magazine. He was a two-time resource person for the Freedom Forum, sponsored by CRN, led a cartoonists workshop in Douala, Cameroon, and his paintings and cartoons have been widely seen around the world. His numerous awards include a first prize in the Academy Press National Visual Arts Competition in 1991, the Guinness Nigeria award for outstanding works of art in 1994, and the Nigerian Medi! a Merit Award Commendation in the Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe Prize for the cartoonist of the year in 1998 and 1999. Adewale is the Director of Cartoonists' Rights Initiative (affiliated to CRN International) and the founding President of the Cartoonists Association of Nigeria, CARTAN. Adewale Adenle joined WittyWorld in 2002.
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