The last rekkas

This graphic history, written by Aomar Bourn and illustrated by his daughter Majdouline Boum-Mendoza, is a sketch and visual memoir of their father and grandfather's life, Faraji, as a rekkas, or foot courier. This fascinating story begins with Faraji, a hamlet dweller in southern Morocco who, in the interwar and early postwar years, worked as a rekkas transporting mail between the Anti-Atlas and High Atlas Mountains. In a series of sketches, Majdouline deftly reimagines her grandfather's travels, providing a fresh viewpoint that challenges colonial artists' depictions of the world. She repositions the photographic lens, now as graphic illustrations, through Faraji's perspective to allow him to express his struggles, joys, viewpoints and pain.