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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sarah Johnson

‘There’s always been a belittling of African women’: honouring history’s invisible heroines

An African woman with a basket of sugar cane on her head stands in water surrounded by figures wrapped in bandages that cover their faces holding long stalks of sugar cane
Miwa (sugar cane). As demand for it drove the transatlantic slave trade, sugar symbolises the sacrifice of people for goods. Photograph: Pamela Tulizo

Pamela Tulizo’s latest series of photographs started with a question. “I asked myself, why are woman in my community in particular, and African woman in general, so strong?” says Tulizo, an artist and photographer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Where does this strength come from?”

Growing up in Goma in eastern DRC, Tulizo was informed and inspired by the women she was surrounded by, including her mother, her sisters, her mother’s friends and her neighbours.

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