THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

In a restaurant in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, a woman in a white dress picks up a microphone as a keyboardist gently plays. “I wanted to silence these scars that reminded me how I was broken, bullied, beaten and cut open alive,” she begins. Épiphanie Nodjikoua Dionrang is not only trying to entertain the audience but also to express her rage. In her poem, she addresses all the men who abuse women: “If one day life allows me, with my vagina I will piss on your face.”

Anon/Economist