Rafael Morante, solidarity ZIMBABWE - March 17, c. 1970 | Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Poster design with textured black brush strokes over red yellow and green showing a face with a headdress looking out between two abstract shapes. The shape on the right has the word 'ZIMBABWE' running vertically down in block-like letters.

solidarity ZIMBABWE - March 17

Creator: Rafael Morante
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: c. 1970

Between the 1960s and 1990s, more than fifty designers worked at OSPAAAL. Based in Cuba, they made magazines and posters that were sent around the world. Their aim was to promote radical political ideas. Many of their posters celebrate socialist revolutions and liberation movements from the Global South.