Ouganda

“[Uganda], independent since 1962, counts its dead. In the last fifteen years alone, 600,000 people have died. Chaos reigns, intermingling ethnic rivalries and hatreds, of which there are about sixty, and religious ones. Added to this are ideological competitions that see Libyans, Russians, Chinese, North Koreans and Western services pulling the chestnuts out of the fire without the political aspects being paramount.

The photos taken by Yan Morvan show a country on its knees where the smell of corpses saturates the air. The fighters are stoned on weed, child soldiers abound, the infrastructure is largely destroyed, the factories have been at a standstill for years. The black market and corruption are the rule. Images of a decolonization that has given way to neo-colonialism, that of the country’s power-hungry elites.”