

Yellow Fever
Visit website7.6/10 • 7
2012-09-01 • 0h 7m
What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.
- Directors
- Ng'endo Mukii
- Writters
- Ng'endo Mukii
- Editors
- Ng'endo Mukii, Ng'endo Mukii

Yellow Fever
Visit website2012-09-01 • 0h 7m
7.6/10 • 7
What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.
- Directors
- Ng'endo Mukii
- Writters
- Ng'endo Mukii
- Editors
- Ng'endo Mukii, Ng'endo Mukii
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsFumy Opeyemi
Dancer
Chipo Kureya
Dancer
Margaret Njeri Mereka
As Self (Voice)
Sam Nokuzola Moyo
Dancer
Abriani Njeri
As Self (Voice)
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