'The people of Africa will overpower the colonisers!' — Soviet poster, 1960. Designed by Kukryniksy and issued by Moscow's State Fine Arts Publishing House.
Kukryniksy was a prominent graphic design collective active during the Second World War and Cold War
A slightly tweaked version of the design by Biafran cartoonist Chuks Anyanwu shows a Biafran man overpowering both the colonialist (here depicted with a hammer-and-sickle on his chest) and Nigeria. Published during the Biafra War, 1968.
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