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).
- Date
- 1975
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Daily World (cartoon by Ollie Harrington)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Ford Administration
- Leader
- Gerald Ford
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, Yanker poster collection, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain: LOC "No known restrictions... Published without copyright notice" (US, c.1975)
Ollie Harrington, cartoon from the Daily World, c.1975. Library of Congress, Yanker poster collection, LCCN 2015649159. LOC rights line: "No known restrictions on publication. Published without copyright notice." Hosted at 800 px.
Text on the object
"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.
