mourning the more important the deceased. to be real. and you under the g.r.u. are. somehow bored. not everyone is keen on the idea of tears for cash. in mind you have to pay for someone to mourn you. it's a personal matter. and to do with gaunt. professional the professional mourners can only cry when they've been drinking it has to come from their head. but the true mourners don't need to take anything away from the heart of the market the one on the left to point out. a group of professional mornings can and the equivalent of up to 200 euros a weekend a lot of money in this otherwise poverty stricken region.

the coffin is carried from the mortuary to the home village of the deceased. now mama africa and her team provide this service. one of their speciality is rolling on the ground and crying that cost extra. for. the next morning mama africa goes back to being a normal housewife. in kisumu she's a bit of a celebrity. the 1st time i cried for someone i didn't know was one a street boy was stabbed to death nobody wanted anything to do with him so i carried him to his grave and you know. she often does for free when a social outcast dies. along with professional mourning for mama africa is

a living selling marijuana it's illegal in kenya but lucrative. i mean. this is how i complain the school fees for my son is in the past my father supported me but since he died i've been selling marijuana even if i have to bribe the police. as soon as my son has finished school and i stop and follow my dream and i want to sell clothes and shoes in nairobi. she doesn't want to give up being a paid morning yet her personal motor comes from bob marley you never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. that could be the personal matter of rows or work too. i was divorced at 27 for being chairlifts i lived on the street for 6 months in my house in medicine as was burnt

down you. i remarried lost my husband and i did 2 years. i spot cervical cancer at u.t.s. i am 40 years old i have had a dickey of really believe in real stuff let me. then i realised this was not my only story. gross always friend stella's husband has just died rose consoles her as best she can she wants to change the face of all widowed women and demands that the abuse of widows should stop. in the tradition of the ethnic group we're going to pass down to the family of the deceased. before this happens they're subjected to a so-called widow cleansing ritually it's a clear case of sexual abuse. rose tries to console stella telling her that she doesn't have to go through with it. it is in your hands you can change the

. after. all men contributed. to the new table maybe i. missed him and i miss my husband very much. he could even cook which is really unusual in our culture. before he died he told me he was again it's the passing down and cleansing of widows and then the world. situation close enough surely means even if you are 60 years old. and a man has to be picked or to be pleased to come and have 6 with you without protection. it's heavy and it's populates and if that doesn't happen if you do it you're stigmatized if you don't do it you're stigmatized so there's no in between for all we do here the fact that you've lost your husband you've lost all your rights so this sexual cleansing is the number one issue.

even in the 21st century it's also the custom at lake victoria in western kenya. rose or were is campaigning against it. the widows stories are all similar they often lose everything to their in-laws. you may not know that if you want to know how i was. glad of it was in your life you yeah. that was. the elderly stuff in particular rose visit some of the old and sick women along with some young widows. gertrude on younger story is especially tragic. not only did she lose her husband but all of her children too but there's not a lot rose can do for her when her foundation has very little funding.

what we can do to the i don't know what can we do to be needy. i don't know why don't we take this one this terrible. grows stronger some hope from her work with children her foundation has set up an orphanage to give girls and boys a new home. for the widows it's a task that helps them cope with their own fate. i also hope to see a generation of young women who will not go through what david's doing we need to be cleansed in inherited identity should we men when they lose their husbands they

will live in dignity and they will know their rights and be respected as human beings. nigeria in the north east of the country where a terrorist group boko haram has the region in a grip of violence women's rights are often not respected. photographer found car captures the fragility of daily life in her hometown of my degree in suicide attacks carried out by the islamic terrorist group boko haram on not uncommon at the local markets. like. the photographer listens to the market traders worries they can't sell much no one can afford more than the most basic food.

it was only focused on one uncle which you know it's all my god damn glad i did everything by there to stop me about this town also i was you know that the banks only change a narrative like a county sheriff to what i see in mainstream media. it looks like a normal day but many people are afraid over a 1000000 people have fled from the country to the city the government cannot manage to feed them sufficiently in the. camps. you have that advantage of a car visits one of these curves the photographer does not conceal the suffering but wants to make sense of it in her own way.

she meets a young woman who was held captive by boko haram. 40 once traumatized women like her to be accepted by society.