This Time We Are Young
Uganda: In 2017, Uganda had the world's youngest age with an average Ugandan aged 15. Now, the country has one of the world's youngest populations, with 78 percent of Ugandans under the age of 30.
South Sudan: What is life like growing up in South Sudan, a country that has been in conflict since its Independence in 2011 and for decades before. I wanted to explore and see how young people stay sane amidst all the insecurities and conflicts that have affected their lives directly for so long.
South Africa: What does it mean to be a queer youth in South Africa today? In a place where you have legal rights to be who you are, but at the same time, where many people in the communities are homophobic and not as open-minded.
Belgium & Germany: Documenting the daily lives and experiences of young Africans in Europe. Through an intimate lens, we are invited into the lives of young people that moved from their home countries in Africa for different reasons and at different times of their lives.
Every other person I know is young. Yet in many ways, the continent remains stubbornly inhospitable to our rising generation. This project is a way of both collaborating with my peers, and exploring my own reality of growing up in Africa - our hopes, our challenges, our future. After all, we will be the ones to define the next chapter of this continent's story.
