Function/photographic essay finalist –‘They train us to sing’
4-year-old Edwin Nangobi stares into the digital camera as he sits along with his mom, 20-year-old Katherine Muwunguzi (proper), and grandmother Pleasure Nangobi within the room Katherine shares as sleeping quarters with luggage of cassava. ‘Kat’ was raped repeatedly by a neighbour at a younger age, ensuing within the being pregnant and delivery of Edwin. Kat lives with an undiagnosed mental incapacity and is unable to understand that Edwin is her youngster.
{Photograph}: Christopher Hopkins/Freelance/Al Jazeera
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