Volume VI Special Issue V June 2026

Name of Author : Mehjebin Farsana, Dr. Reshmi S

Title of the paper : Three Nines Fine: Disability, Race, and the Coloniality of Care in African Graphic Medicine

Abstract: This study presents a decolonial feminist reading of Three Nines Fine A Journey with Brain Health by Alanah Knibb, based on the true story of Omotola Thomas, diagnosed with young onset Parkinsons disease at 35. Centering on Asabi Olayemi, an African woman living with early onset Parkinsons, the paper argues that her illness is shaped not only by medical factors but also by racism, gender bias, and inequitable healthcare systems. Her migration to the United Kingdom reveals the limitations of biomedical universality, where Western norms dominate care and representation. Drawing on María Lugoness concept of the coloniality of gender, the study shows how medical institutions sustain colonial hierarchies by marginalizing culturally specific illness experiences. Through graphic medicine, the narrative resists these structures by emphasizing embodied knowledge and redefining pain through Three Nines Fine, reimagining care beyond dominant biomedical frameworks.

Keywords : Decolonial Feminism, Coloniality of Gender, African Graphic Medicine, Healthcare inequality

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Page Number : 162-167