Women

A young girl in a tattered school uniform fashioned like a wedding dress. She walks hand-in-hand with a translucent ghost soldier.
“Revenge Wives”: The Girls in Mozambique Paying the Price of a Bygone War

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A woman in an Akashinga ranger uniform looks forward, holding two large, broken gold wedding rings to her eyes like binoculars. Inside each ring’s hollow center, elephants are visible—one side showing them on open savannah, the other near green trees.
They escaped their husbands. Then they took on poachers

Since childhood,  40-year-old Namatai Torerai* has always dreamt of becoming a police officer. Growing up…

A young woman in a red robe and headwrap holds a bright yellow umbrella patterned with leaves and books. She walks through rain made of wedding rings, framed family photos, and a baby bottle. The interior of the umbrella is made of galaxies and just beneath it, colorful flowers bloom upward.
“I decided to be free”: These Nigerian women are okay with being just the ‘Cool Aunties’

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They were imprisoned, pregnant, and alone. Then someone spoke for them

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A split collage showing a lush forest on the left and a barren, degraded one on the right with a woman carrying firewood and a monkey sitting in the background.
The forest of my childhood is dying. I finally understand why.

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“We don’t rent to people like you”: A trans woman’s search for a home in Lagos
“We don’t rent to people like you”: A trans woman’s search for a home in Lagos

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An open casket lowered in the ground, revealing a man in a blue suit made out of Ugandan shillings.
“Who saves for death?’: Where funeral costs break families, a village burial society offers another way

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They said it was just another murder. But her father refuses to let it be forgotten
Kampala, Uganda — (Minority Africa) At around 1 p.m. on Thursday, September 19, 2024, Peter…
A collage made up of a woman carrying tubers in a basket, with a farm and an image of 2 women drying grain in the background.
These Nigerian women are claiming their “right to own land”

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A close-up shot of a young woman with black-and-white drawing of a school in the background. This woman has a zipper on her lips which is almost completely opened to reveal her mouth.
“Oga Lecturer”: The media platform combating sexual harassment in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions

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