African Footprint Reflection

1. What are the main visual elements?
2. What issue is this political cartoon about?
3. What is the cartoonist’s position on this issue?
4. What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion regarding the cartoonist’s position?
5. What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?

• The main visual elements in this picture is, of course, the footprint on Africa and the propaganda colors.
• That people are just taking over Africa without realizing what they are f=doing to Africa. The people, the land and the culture. They just think that people can take over Africa and not care. They just want to leave their mark.
• The cartoonist's position on this issue would be negative against the people that have and are presently taking over Africa. This person does not like the fact that people are taking advantage of Africa. But the cartoonist could also think that it is OK to take over Africa by putting his own footprint on Africa.
• Well, the negative part of the cartoonist's position would be just mainly because he posted this on the world wide web to spread that it's not good to do this kind of stuff to people and land. But the positive evidence would be that he's saying he has left his mark, and then once again, he put in on the world wide web and thought " OK, this is cool, why don't I spread the news that people can take over Africa."
• The cartoonist could have given more backup on what they think about this subject because there are two sides to this confrontation. Like saying on the footprint... NO. Just plainly on the footprint, he/she could've written that.