Video: Wide open walls. Graffiti on the streets of a village in Gambia
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Project participants Wide Open Walls believe that the poor inhabitants of African countries should not be given food, but the opportunity to earn their own food. That is why these artists transform the forgotten ones hamlets throughout the "black" continent in art objectswhere tourists are not averse to coming. This transformation took place with the village Kubuneh in Gambia.
The most famous slums in the world, Brazilian favelas have long become a platform for the creativity of street artists who turn these rather depressing places into vibrant art objects, where tourists are not averse to visiting.
And a group of artists, united under the Wide Open Walls project, decided to transfer similar experience to remote African villages, whose inhabitants suffer from poverty and lack of food.
The first settlement to be ennobled thanks to the Wide Open Walls initiative was the Gambian village of Kubuneh, with a population of only a couple of hundred. Eight artists went there for two weeks to decorate several dozen of the local walls with unusual graffiti drawings.
It was in 2011. And since then, the economic condition of some of the residents of Kubuneh has improved markedly. Of course, tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world do not come to this village every day, but a certain flow of foreign visitors is still observed. And enterprising local people find ways to earn a "pretty penny" on this interest in them.
Since 2011, artists, as part of the Wide Open Walls project, have decorated several more villages in African countries, including the Gambia. And they are not going to stop there. After all, creativity is a way to make the world a better place. And the graffiti in Kubuneh is a great example of this idea.
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