A woman walks down the catwalk during a fashion show of the Mougnan foundation as part of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, in Abidjan, on December 3, 2021. AFPpix: Twenty models with disabilities have taken to the catwalk in Ivory Coast in a ground-breaking assault on taboo and stigma.
Leslie Antsere, who suffers from neurofibromatosis, a genetic disease which can cause disfiguring tumours, said she was delighted to take part in an event that had stopped her from “feeling ashamed.”“Even in a situation of disability, we can go beyond ourselves and do many things,“ she said. “Even mentioning a disabled person in the world of beauty is taboo in Ivory Coast,“ said Ange Prisca Gnagbo, one of organisers for the special evening.But such practices are entrenched in Ivory Coast, where disabilities are often viewed -- as elsewhere in Africa -- as an affliction.
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