Unmasking Simon ‘Selefu’ Seisa the Senior Citizen of Botswana’s Cartoon World

Abstract

Staff writer Tshireletso Motlogelwa tells the life of a quiet man with a loud alter-ego, Mmegi veteran
cartoonist Simon Seisa. He was a shadowy figure who would drift in and out of the newsroom, sit down at
a desk far form everyone, draft something on a pad, drop it off at the Editor’s office, grab his briefcase and
leave. No word. No introductions. Quiet. Methodical. Anonymous. Only a few people in the newsroom
knew who he was. Junior reporters at Mmegi came to know the man who signed his cartoons, Selefu.