Leaving Eldoret
Muchilwa, Alfred
Illustrator country: Kenya
Scenarist: Muchilwa, Alfred
Scenarist country: Kenya
Language: None
Keywords: cinema; colonialism; media; pitiful representation
PROJECT:
Participated to Africa e Mediterraneo Award 2009-2010
A comic artist wonders how Africa and Africans are portrayed by the media and above all by cinema. White people’s opinion about Africa is dominated by an extremely negative perspective, which leads them to consider Africans as powerless children who are not able to live in peace and who develop their own economy without the intervention of white people.
Technique: Pencil and ink on paper
Black and White
Original drawings
Dimensions: 30,5 x 43 cm
Inventory: inv. 209 / coll. CX17.KENYA.MUCHILWA.1
Number of sheets: 4
Notes: The published pages are colored and have lettering