If pictures speak 1000 words, political cartoons tell a whole story.

            In the perspective of an outsider, people deem Africa as a country of poverty, diseases, and many various negative concepts that may deprave the country itself. Just like in Sabrina's presentation, all of these thoughts and stereotypes have covered up Africa itself, burying it to the deepest abyss where hope only stands as a tiny fraction of survival. In this political cartoon, it illustrated the extremes in Africa and the bad side of it. The skeleton figures represents death and aids, obviously, stood as the one with the highest death toll rate. In this picture, it spoke out to the whole continent as seen in the banner in the background. In Africa, aids are caused by severe starvation. Aids plays a major rold in people who suffered from malnutrition. In addition, Africa is known to be stereotyped as a country with bad hygienic environments, which moreover leads to diseases that will increase the rate in death tolls. 

           Similar to that of the picture above, but with more verbal descriptions, it portrays Africa with the corruption and obstacles of famine, war, and diseases. The collapse can be seen between the horses as if they're all about to topple over any minute. A skeleton sits on top of the horse on the very right, captioned with the statement,"developed world's attention span". In my opinion, being the poorest continent in the world makes it capture the attention from international countries who are in search of help that can aid Africa in any way. "Famine" having being the one with the largest axes symbolizes that it is most fatal compared to that of war and disease. In 2005, a study showed that about 10.1 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday. these statistics were caused by the suffer in high rates of hunger and malnutrition. However, most of these deaths are attributed, not to outright starvation, but to diseases that move in on vulnerable children whose bodies have been weakened by hunger.

             As people have sometimes said, the truth hurts. The political cartoon on the left captioned the whole picture with "A Reality". Decorated with "warlord, civil war, dictatorship, disease, poverty, hunger, famine, drought, and rights abuses", Africa is generally summarized with terms of a much-flawed continent. A sarcastic tone was added in the picture when the author described it as "governing the continent unitedly". Emphasis on the word "unitedly", Africa has been the continent with much factional infightings among tribes of different cultures, but the word "unitedly" makes it opposite of what Africa is. Despite of this, none of the political cartoons depicted the bright side of Africa,  but instead, it drew out what has always been thought of: a country of poverty. Such stereotypes continue pressing its sharp edges on the heart of Africa, and as to what people think, hopefully it will change in the future.