A photomontage is when you take a lot of pictures, drawings, etc. and combine them to create one piece. On this project we had to show the stereotypes of our region or country. My region is East Africa and I used printed images and magazine pictures to create a collage. I also wrote East Africa with markers and colored white spaces with green color.

The stereotype of this region cannot be defined in a good way, when somebody thinks in an African person, the first thing that comes to their minds it's hunger, HIV, color people, thin people, painted bodies and very shy people. Even do we can't think about good things of this region, I can say these countries are famous for.

East Africa is not a very famous country but it is known because of certain characteristics. One of many is that these countries use to be at war because of religion, Sudan and Uganda are a very brief example. Another thing is that these countries suffer from hunger. In the other hand there are good things about these countries, for example, they are one of the most diverse countries in the world, Sudan has 578 different tribes and 145 registered languages, this means that Sudan has a lot different cultural aspects inside its country. Another good thing is the tourism, everyone around the world dreams about traveling to East Africa and take a safari to see all the animals, the plants and the landscapes. This is why this region has survived against many problems such as education. East Africa also has beautiful beaches for tourists but nowadays it's a very dangerous zone for independent travel because of the conflicts of the government forces and piracy. 

In conclusion, the global perception that everybody has to have of this region is that they want to overcome every problem they have but they don't know how. These people is the happiest people all over the world because they know how to deal with huge problems and they continue living no matter what they have or what they don't, the best thing they have is life and they know how to love it.