These three illustrations (acrylic on rag paper), were completed a few years ago, and are a part of an on-going series of drawings, illustrations, collage, mixed-media about Africa and various subjects to do with colonialism, post-colonialism, conflict and socio-economic issues.
1/3 White man’s shame: slave-trade, the destruction of communities, elimination of culture, devaluing of life.
2/3 Africa weeps, war & conflict, Rwanda genocide.
3/3 White man’s greed, the colonial control of Africa’s mineral wealth from gold to diamonds.