Ok this is what passes for tabloid news in Cameroon. It’s written in both English and one of the patois languages, so I don’t feel I need to explain the storyline, but I will note that the seemingly gratuitous graphics of the goat giving birth is indicative of the culture here...as in gratuitous imagery, not goats having human babies (unless you believe this TRUE LIVE STORY). Pictures are really important for communicating information since there are so many languages, so a lot of my health pamphlets and posters sport some pretty frank cartoons of folk with diarrhea and worms and other nasty diseases. As it happens, this poster is hanging in my host family’s living right now, next to their picture of me with the American Ambassador and a picture of Superman Arafat (my bro) colored my first week with them (the store didn’t have any Batman coloring books, so you win this round Zenker).
Sunday, January 14, 2007
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