Yellow Fever

Overview

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.

Cast

F

Fumy Opeyemi

Dancer

Chipo Kureya

Dancer

M

Margaret Njeri Mereka

As Self (Voice)

Sam Nokuzola Moyo

Dancer

A

Abriani Njeri

As Self (Voice)

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