Identity and empowerment of gambian women through photographic speeches

Abstract

With the objective to recognize the construction of identity and empowerment of Gambian women, it was conducted a study for the first time in Lamin, Gambia, in which women photograph their own environment and make compositions that reflect everyday life. These portraits contradict the image that the world have about Africa. The photos and their speeches expose that international support should be inserted from their cosmovision of life and respecting the way they appropriate the echoes of postcoloniality to build on its difference. The global discourse is analyzed from the horizontality of Entre Voces, an horizontal methodology for the analysis of intercultural communication through the authorship of two or more voices, that allows the "other", whoever they are, to define themselves from their own gaze. They were also considered subaltern studies, gender perspective, feminist discourses and artistic education.