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Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever

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 for Yellow Fever...

Fumy Opeyemi
Fumy Opeyemi
Dancer
Chipo Kureya
Chipo Kureya
Dancer
Margaret Njeri Mereka
Margaret Njeri Mereka
As Self (Voice)
Sam Nokuzola Moyo
Sam Nokuzola Moyo
Dancer
Abriani Njeri
Abriani Njeri
As Self (Voice)
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