'The Worlds Most Dangerous Place for Women,' Broadcasted on BBC3 Tuesday 30th March 2010A while ago I was looking at some photographs by Italian photographer Daniele Tamagni of present day Sapeurs in the Congo. These men where so well dressed and presented and gave a great insight into a particular society and culture that is upheld within the Republic of Congo.
I saw the BBC where doing a set of documentary films dubbed 'Women, Weddings War and Me.' Whereby people visited their country of birth after a lifetime away in England. To discover customs, tradtitions and a culture that they were now alien too.
One of the documetaries was to be set in The Congo. Where Judith Wanga a 23year old woman who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo but grew up in London returns to her place of birth, visiting the parents who sent her away to England as a baby for reasons that she is yet to truely understand.
The documentary is not for the faint hearted. It tells of the way women are treated within a war torn country. Whereby rape and sexual abuse is a weapon commonly used on women and children of all ages; to brutal affect.
The Congo is a country enriched with natural resources and as soldiers and rebel groups fight over diamond and mineral mines, there is no limit to the torture being induced upon Congo's women.
This pays great comparision to the world you see in the images of Tamagni's Sapeurs 'Gentlemen of Bocongo. ' Revealing the faces and lives behing the women of Congo.
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