Photographer challenges the negative images facing albinos and Nubians
Sasha Aphipa, left, with her younger sister, Mary Amoit — who has normal pigmentation wrapped in a Ugandan flag. PHOTO | PAPA SHABANI
East Africa has its share of minority communities who face discrimination based on their being different from the majority communities; this discrimination is nowhere more pronounced and harsh than that faced by albinos.
Albinos in some parts of Africa are treated as outcasts and many are murdered at birth or killed in the false belief that their body parts can be used in witchcraft rituals to bring wealth and good luck.
