In Africa, principally in traditional environment, a handicapped child has no much chance to survive. A malformation, a mental deficiency, is the sign or the announcement of something that is going to break. Hard to hear from a Malian speech therapist that matronly women of some West African ethnic groups eliminate the handicapped child, or to understand the world “Ngoki” which means uncompleted for Samburus of Kenya. And what to say about this death definition, cause those babies doesn’t really die, they just “return” to rebirth later.
Since two years, I attempt to document the life of children who are banished of their families because they are different. The matter of handicap, intimately linked to taboo, has been widen to special case of twins of Mananjary, Madagascar, cause there was a concrescence of a look on the diversity (the fact of living together) that exclude each culpability notion as for the real suffering of the children.