Maryam Turaki

Photographer
    
Identity and The Nigerian Woman
Location: Abuja
Nationality: Nigerian
Biography: Maryam Turaki (b. 1991) is a documentary photographer based in Abuja, Nigeria, driven by a passion for humanity and life.  She focuses on humanitarian, cultural, social stories, education, and human rights issues in Africa. She... MORE
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Identity and The Nigerian Woman
Copyright Maryam Turaki 2024
Date of Work Jun 2020 - Ongoing
Updated Feb 2022
Location Abuja, Nigeria
Topics Joy, Personal Projects, Womens Rights
Summary
The project focuses on Nigerian women and their identity. For these women their identity is theirs, they decide what makes their identity and how their life is lived, without fear and overcoming the fears. The project seeks to ask and find what identity means to the Nigerian woman and what expressing that identity is like in Nigeria.
Nigeria is a melting pot of different religions, tribes, and cultures. Each one defines what a woman's identity should be. She is told how to live, what religion to practice, how to love, how to live her life, when to marry, how many children she should have, whether or not she should be educated or even have a job. This project is about finding what women in Nigeria are deciding what their identity is. I want to listen and tell stories of women from different parts of Nigeria, from the conservative North to the liberal South and women in between.
I hope these stories can serve as hope for the girls hoping and dreaming of being able to make their life theirs. I hope these battles women are fighting today, women whose stories I tell today will make life easier for the women to come.

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