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Babu on the Bad Road
Young Maasai beg for food or change from a bus full of pilgrims on their way to see Reverend Ambilikile Mwasapila, a faith healer in Tanzania’s remote district of Loliondo.
A faith healer has brought hope to hundreds of thousands—but he has also convinced them to abandon HIV medication.
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Issue: Winter 2012 / Volume 88/1
Published: June 24, 2012
Jesse Dukes is an independent writer and documentary maker. He studied radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, worked for With Good Reason at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and is a principal at Big Shed. His VQR essay “Babu on the Bad Road” was included in The...
Sarah Elliott’s photographs have appeared in The Guardian, Marie Claire, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and Vanity Fair, covering reproductive rights in Kenya, maternal mortality in Ethiopia, fistula repair in Central African Republic, and women’s roles during the Libyan Revolution. In 2011, she was...