The sold continent - SOLD
Richard Mudariki (b 1985)
The sold continent - 2013
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm
Signed and dated bottom right
Sold - 2014
The continent’s past colonizers are perpetually subordinating raw material producing Africa to the economic demands of hyper-industrializing first world countries. Despite the abolishment of the slave trade, they still stride the continent that provided the resources and capital to accelerate the industrial revolution. Their policies and treaties have stitched new boundaries in Africa, and their philanthropy comes with strings attached. They are therefore very apprehensive of a truly independent Africa; they still need the African market, and they still need to exploit its human and natural resources. True African patriots are demonized and systematically eliminated, the greedy are bribed and the continent remains underdeveloped. Africa remains sold.