Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 1, 2012
• Runtime
• 7 min
• Genres
• Animation, Documentary
• Director
• Ng'endo Mukii

Yellow Fever — 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)