Shienga Visual Storytelling Individual News Analysis Story1 #Visual Storytelling #IVS2025 #UniMAC-IFT June 15, 2025

 Individual News Analysis Story 1

News Agency: The Guardian 

Date: Wed June 11th, 2025. 17: 13 CEST.

1. The image really does represent the headline. In the photo we can see black Africans in a typical rural setting with a bag of rice on a scale having a USAID name and logo boldly inscribed on it. Although the USAID does come in diverse means such as financial grants, technical assistances and advisory support, majority comes in the form of food supplies, medical items and other miscellaneous to usually deprived communities, refugees and conflict areas. This particular photo highlights one of such places.

2. There's a sad, and crestfallen look on the individual beneficiaries around. With the Trump administration's plan to cut of subsequent aid to the continent, some worried concerns can be observed on the faces of the people standing around the supplies. The emotions depicted here might not necessarily connect with the US government's plan of scraping the support and might rather highlight the sad emotional state the beneficiaries were already afflicted with perhaps during a conflict or a famine time but it does really establish the sad state in which they are in and a concern of how they might survive on their own when such support is being taken away.

3. No. The image doesn't depict any form of bias. It is a reality or an impending reality on the ground and the sad emotional connection to events before or in the aftermath of such portrays that.

4. The image is tangible and have aesthetic ambiance and effect. The presence of the USAID name and logo on display as well as the people it tends to help offers a perfect picture.

5. The image does more in adding weight and reinforcing the news headline. There's a sense of vulnerability and what the impact of aid annulment might have on the people.

6. I doubt it will. The threat of a possible aid cut is the major headline. Although Africa tends to be the major beneficiary from USAID, it isn't the only continent benefiting from that. 

We have Asian, South America and Caribbean nations that are also up there in terms of reception. So if the image is changed from say a black African to a Middle Easterner in a refugee camp receiving an aid, it's the same effect. Nothing changes the headline that "Trump Administration To Cut All USAID Overseas Roles In Dramatic Restructuring."

7. This particular image is very simplistic, realistic and easy grasping one's head around than the others of similar nature and magnitude. It captures all the basic elements and angles to qualify for a befitting news headline.

8. Off course it does. The image did capture many facets of our cultural and political over-reliance on the West for our basic needs. We are always expecting donations and aid from foreign donors to cater for some of our most mundane needs despite the fact that we have gazillions of resources to more than adequately manage ourselves. 

The image could have captured that of other races for example an Asian, receiving those supplies but they decided to use an African in that dimension. That tells you of how the West see us as constantly needy and dependant group of people.

Index: BABJ28022

Name: Daniel Kekey