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title: Looked like everybody in Africa was in there waitin' for us!, Ollie Harrington, Daily World cartoon, c.1975
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harrington-everybody-in-africa-waitin-1975/
description: Cartoon of a soldier in a peaked cap standing before a tank labelled "SOUTH AFRICA", with a crewwoman on the turret, in jungle beside a signpost whose…
section: Collection
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[![Looked like everybody in Africa was in there waitin' for us!, Ollie Harrington, Daily World cartoon, c.1975](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/harrington-everybody-in-africa-waitin-1975.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/harrington-everybody-in-africa-waitin-1975.jpg)

# Looked like everybody in Africa was in there waitin' for us!, Ollie Harrington, Daily World cartoon, c.1975

Cartoon of a soldier in a peaked cap standing before a tank labelled "SOUTH AFRICA", with a crewwoman on the turret, in jungle beside a signpost whose arrows read "ANGOLA" and "PEKING WASHINGTON"; the printed caption has the soldier say everybody in Africa was "waitin' for us". The tell: the signpost puts Peking and Washington on the same road as the South African tank, so the stigma of the invasion is carried onto them by a symbol rather than an argument (transfer).

## Text on the object

Original (english) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"Looked like everybody in Africa was in there waitin' for us!"
[on the tank barrel:] SOUTH AFRICA
[signpost:] ANGOLA
PEKING
WASHINGTON
[signature:] OLLIE HARRINGTON
[logo:] DAILY WORLD
```

Read from the 800 px LOC image; the signature is stylised.

[← Franco's tomb before the high altar, Valley of the Fallen (photograph, 2005)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/franco-tomb-valle-de-los-caidos-1975/) ["Да здравствует Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза!": rooftop slogan, Moscow →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/moscow-kpss-rooftop-slogan-1975/)

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