Amazing: Congo cartoonist set to sketch new president

Thembo Kashauri, Democratic Republic of Congo's best-known political cartoonist during an interview with Reuters in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. [Photo: Reuters]

KINSHASA - Thembo Kashauri has sketched some of the most scathing parodies of Joseph Kabila, yet Congo’s best-known political cartoonist has mixed feelings about the taciturn president’s impending departure after nearly two decades in power.

“He had an atypical personality for a head of state but he inspired a lot of my drawings,” the cartoonist known as Kash said in his cramped studio cluttered with old computer equipment in the capital Kinshasa.