Reflection on Imperialism Cartoon

What are the main visual elements?
There is a drawing of the Africa continent and there is a big foot step dug in the middke of it. In the spot where it has been stepped on is dry and the land is cracking up.

What issue is the political cartoon about?
I think that the cartoon is about imperialism and how Europeans affected the lives of the people in Africa and Africa itself as they took over the land.

What is the cartoonist's opinion on this issue?
The cartoonist thinks that imperialism was negative and that it has left a lot of damage in Africa and other countries after the Europeans had taken over the land. The native African culture and their ways of life has "dried up", and physically, a lot of raw materials had been taken away by the Europeans and there is not that much left now.

What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion?
I think that it is obvious that the cartoon shows the negative side of imperialism since there is a visible drought in the spot where there was the foot mark. I think that the dry land shows that natural resources there have been "soaked up" as much as it could and there is not much left of it could symbolize the religion and culture of the natives in that area. Because imperialism did cause a lot of conflicts and changes to the native Africans who lived there.

What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartooon more persuasive.
I think the cartoonist could have used more intersting symbols and more clear pictures because I couldn't really recognize which continent the land was.

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