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Terry Hirst was a cartoonist and one of the leading figures in Africa's post-independence "golden age" of art and scholarship from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s which saw a flowering of work in the arts, cinema and the academic world. Terry Hirst was born in 1932 in Brighton in England. In 1965, Hirst moved to Kenya where he was to spend the rest of his life. == Life and Early Career == Terry Hirst grew up in Brighton in southern England. From an early age Hirst knew that he wanted to be an artist. He was always drawing and every morning as he made the paper run in his neighbourhood he would read through all the cartoons in all the papers. From the 1940s to 1950, Hirst's thoughts and attitudes were strongly shaped by political cartoonists from across the political spectrum, including Low, Zec, Shepard, Illingworth, Lancaster, Cummings, Giles and Vicky.〔''(Terry Hirst: The Trailblazer Editorial Cartoonist And Comic Author )'', Msanii Kimani wa Wanjiru, ''The Nairobi Law Monthly'', 01 August 2014.〕 But it never occurred to him to be a cartoonist. He wanted to be an artist. To the disappointment of his headmaster, Hirst turned down the opportunity to go to Oxford University and chose instead to take up a Fine Art course at the Brighton College of Art.〔''(Terry Hirst: The grandfather of local cartoonists )'', Joyce Nyairo, ''The Daily Nation'', 04 October 2013.〕 After he graduated he was soon appointed the Head of the Art Department at one of the largest comprehensive schools in Nottingham. While teaching in Nottingham, Hirst stumbled upon a newspaper advertisement for art teachers willing to teach in Africa. The choice was between Ghana and Kenya. Fueled by a sense of adventure, Hirst left England in 1965 to assume a teaching position at Kenya High School in Nairobi. Part of the reason he took up the position in Kenya, Hirst says, was because of a returning settler who had told him about what a "terrible time" he had had in Kenya. He had given Hirst a copy of Jomo Kenyatta's Facing Mount Kenya to show him what he had been through, but when Hirst read the book he says it "blew my mind...! It was about, not ways of having but ways of being and I couldn't even tell him that I loved it!" Hirst's decision to go to Kenya rather than Ghana was also influenced by the fact that the Kenyan contract was for two years while the Ghanaian contract stipulated a five-year commitment. To Hirst, five years sounded like it was too long.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terry Hirst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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