Esther Ruth Mbabazi: At home with the Batwa people of Uganda
Esther Ruth Mbabazi
As Uganda suffers badly from the Covid-19 pandemic, photographer Esther Ruth Mbabazi traveled to Bwindi national park to find out how the Batwa people, one of east Africa’s most marginalized communities who live on the park’s green and rainy edges, are coping with the pandemic
Produced with support from the Henry Luce Foundation for a Magnum Foundation initiative to document the global health crisis through a variety of perspectives.
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“The elderly were worried about the future of their tribe … The young people just wanted the same opportunities that all other Ugandans do. Many had never lived in the forest and I didn’t get a strong sense that they were struggling to keep their traditions.”