Art for Gorillas

Category: Art of Conservation (AoC) | Date: Oct 22 2008 | By: Julie

“You received HOW MUCH at market for our goat?” the woman screams out at her husband.

So the story goes and it doesn’t look good for the husband who sold the family’s goat at market for an incredibly low price and the family is hungry and needs to buy food.

Rushubi Primary Schoolchildren vote this story to be the one they’ll illustrate in today’s exercise Lesson Where Art Tells A Story.

Illustration by HAKIZIMANA Innocent.
…every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end…

Illustration by MUHAWENIMANA Christine.
Inzara, Hunger by Rushubi Primary School Art of Conservation Students.
A husband and a wife are home and are very hungry…

Illustration by NIYONSABA Valence.
Together they decide that the husband will take their goat to market to sell…

Illustration by BIZIMANA Pacifique.
When the husband returns home from the market, his wife asks him how much money he received from the sale of the goat…

Illustration by MANISHIMWE.
After hearing the low price, she gets extremely angry at him for selling the goat at the cheapest price…

Illustration by MUNYANSHOZA.
The End

Illustration by NTIREHGANYA Leonard.

Not the happiest story I’ve ever heard, but it was up to the children to decide which story they wanted to concentrate on for the day. Perhaps their bellies were empty and HUNGER was at the top of their lists of concerns.

Another story soon.

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