This is a Ranan Lurie Award Award winning Editorial cartoon with the theme African Tsunami. The cartoonist’s name is Alberto Sabat, the carton was published in a daily in Argentina. These international awards are supported by the United Nations.
Now, as an African what do you make of this?
Filed under: Culture
Man they act like all Africans are poor are something. i’m African and I wear CLOTHES!! I just think sterotypes are so wrong
I agree Hope. They take them as skinny, poor desperate people but we are the same as them. Just became Africa’s in poverty they take it we ALL r poor. I wonder if other countries painted them like this. They’d get pissed
tsunami is a monster he killed milions person’s .
i think to destroy tsunami because he isn’t destroy them.
me vjen keq per shum persona qe vdiqen nga mbar bot.
REPORTER
i am appauled.
i think its funny but true in the clothing at least give something to cover his butt
i hate raicist people who make fun of other people
i hate raciest people who make fun of others like africans are poor
this is a very smart picture considering the climate out in africa, but i hate how the artist follows the sterotype that africans are like animals running around like monkeys with no clothes on. give africans some respect! they are people just like you and me. i’m 14 years old and in 8th grade and in the history classes they only talk about africans being enslaved which really embarasses me because i am black. why don’t they every talk about our accomplishments and the impact we made in society?
stereotyping is unavoidable
the blacks will always be like this because of media. and because of media we have plenty of other stereotypes. Scotish will always be ginger, Irish will always be drunk, British will always have funny accent and weird manners, americans will always be fat and so on. it doesn’t concern anybody that you have your but covered with clothes. damn man, people ain’t stupid, they know that. everyone knows that not all the arabs are terrorists and not every jew has long beard and not every american black guy likes rap music and strawberry lemonade 
chillaxe man. life is beautiful.
im white
i’d love to help you guys, but I’m fighting my own battle; I’m Mexican!
I am South African and I think it is a very funny picture. I also think that people should stop searching for something that might or might not have a tiny bit of hidden “racism”, because like in annoyed’s case he is searching for racism or classification against himself.
I personally do not support BEE (Black Empowerment) because it is racism to classify people by skin colour (I am black). I think we should just try to ignore skin colour and judge people by what they do and not how they look.
If someone does do a bit of joking with another race, I think the joked on race should just ignore it and laugh along and not see it out of a skin colour based perspective but see it out of a personality based perspective.
Now, to the picture, I think this cartoon is very funny because of the wave-shaped ground and the little kid standing in curiosity nest to it. The naked aspect is also funny.
I know Zulu’s long ago used to be half naked and that is funny in a modern world. We still respest bushmen because of their great skills.
I close this post saying that stop searching for racism, and see everything in another aspect.
Well ,that’s a pure view of it but a rather evasive route to take. I love dealing with life that way too, but just woke and realized it’s no fantasy…. To you the painting is hilarious, good for you. But then things aren’t always what they are at face value.
I think Sabat’s point, especially after the outpouring of aid to tsunami victims, was that we are ignoring kids in Africa hit by a different kind of disaster: drought.
This wasn’t supposed to be a cartoon to invoke laughter.
i’m white but the skin color doesn’t matter
You know, clothed or unclothed, African kids are getting hit with a tsunami of malaria. What is anyone doing about it, other than trying to blame in on Rachel Carson, a poor scientist who died 35 years ago?
i think that this pic is trying to convey the climate in african deserts like the kalahari…and as such…the person portrayed is a kalahari bushman or child…who in many cases do not wear clothes and are malnourished (look at the person’s abdomen…typical of Protein Energy Malnourishment or PEM). in addition, regarding the clothes issue, it seems there is a tan line around the buttocks which means the person portrayed usually does wear clothes, at least a loincloth, but for some reason, in the picture, is not. instead of looking for hidden racism in the picture, i think we should applaud the artist’s understanding of the greatness of Africans in standing stoic when faced with invincible odds
just cause hes black isnt it?
…..i knew it. realisticaly speaking he could have 1 item of pants or shirt so i do believe that he could be wearing pants. BECAUSE he likes his wily and so he covers it up like a good little african. SO not all africans are completely naked. the tribal people have frikking straw and they dont even need us to live sos ponder on that!.
i like this image