From Cape to Cairo - SOLD
Richard Mudariki (b 1985)
From Cape to Cairo - 2013
Charcoal and pastel on paper
71 x 50 cm
Signed, titled and dated in the margin
Sold - 2016
From the late 19th century until the middle to late 20th century, the powerful European nations colonized Africa in order to have control of its raw materials and have access to its market for their manufactured goods. China has a strategy for Africa; it is subtly taking over the continent – ‘painting Africa red’. Africa should devise a counter-strategy for this Chinese ‘invasion’.