Wanted for Murder!
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Title
Wanted for Murder!
Subject
Chicago Anti-Apartheid
Description
The poster depicts a wanted man name Jonas Savimbi who was viewed upon as a traitor to his own people of Angolan as he made an alliance with Portugal and commit murder to his own soldiers of the Africa’s Liberation Movement who wanted apartheid to end. The iconography shows a picture of Jonas Savimbi wanted for his crime as he was never viewed as a hero to protect his own country from danger.
The large letters read "WANTED FOR MURDER!" depicting a dangerous criminal on the run.
This poster was done on as a printing pressing used as a flyer.
This poster provides us a history into the anti-apartheid movement, and how many people were not willing to surrender until apartheid comes to an end. It led through violence during Angola's war of independence against the Portuguese in 1961-1974 as the anti-apartheid movement never stopped till they get their victory. In Apartheid Artistic Legacy page 35, Juliet Highet states, “We could only get past menacing groups of Africans on the streets by giving them the clenched fist black power sign as we approached. These accounts testify to the ways in which the anti-apartheid movement was itself informed by the visual and performative semiotics of the American civil rights movement.”
The large letters read "WANTED FOR MURDER!" depicting a dangerous criminal on the run.
This poster was done on as a printing pressing used as a flyer.
This poster provides us a history into the anti-apartheid movement, and how many people were not willing to surrender until apartheid comes to an end. It led through violence during Angola's war of independence against the Portuguese in 1961-1974 as the anti-apartheid movement never stopped till they get their victory. In Apartheid Artistic Legacy page 35, Juliet Highet states, “We could only get past menacing groups of Africans on the streets by giving them the clenched fist black power sign as we approached. These accounts testify to the ways in which the anti-apartheid movement was itself informed by the visual and performative semiotics of the American civil rights movement.”
Creator
Columbia College Chicago Students
Source
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection, College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia
College Chicago
College Chicago
Publisher
College Archives & Special Collections, Columbia College Chicago
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Citation
Columbia College Chicago Students, “Wanted for Murder!,” Protest Art, accessed May 13, 2024, https://protest.omeka.net/items/show/36.