Mothers of a Nation is about a group of empowered Ugandan women who struggle with changes in society’s traditional roles after women’s suffrage. This bittersweet victory, granted by Museveni, Uganda’s present president, in 1985 came at a heavy price. Today, Uganda is still a male dominated society that now feels that if women are free to work outside the home then they can carry the workload of both men and women. The photographs depict the women who tirelessly uphold their nation despite personal heartache and suffering.
Ugandan women endure oppression everyday in a society controlled by men, but their determination and toil runs the nation, regardless of politics. Many of the women live with HIV and suffer from the prejudice and isolation that comes with having the virus. The women carry HIV along with all the other burdens of their nation with strength and integrity. Women’s suffrage presented women with the opportunity to prove just how much they were capable of despite all odds. The photographs portray the women and their children for whom they struggle.
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