Wangechi Mutu’s Ecofeminist Vision in The End of Eating Everything

Commentators on Wangechi Mutu’s enigmatic animated video The End of Eating Everything (2015) claim that it depicts a gluttonous monster-woman with an insatiable appetite, devouring hapless birds. It is seen as a commentary on threat posed by ruthless global forces represented by the beast with a beautiful Black woman’s face. This article argues, instead, that the woman represents violated and polluted Earth, a victim of carnivorous birds, who, in turn, represent the devastating agents of industrial pollution and rampant consumption. This work testifies to the artist’s interest in and identification with African ecofeminism and its damning and dark prognostication of what is bound to happen to dirtied, uncleaned, abused Earth.