Rada Akbar

Afghan visual artist and photographer (b.10 May 1988)

Rada Akbar (Pashto: رادا اکبر; born 1988), is an Afghan-born conceptual artist, and photographer. The focus of her artwork has been to denounce the oppression of women, and ask the world to see the strength of Afghan women through her artwork and photographic portraits. She was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 most influential women of 2021. Biography. Rada Akba was born on 1988 in Afghanistan, during the Soviet–Afghan War which lasted from 1978 to 1992. She often spent her childhood in a basement to avoid bombs. The family lived in Pakistan for six years. . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rada_Akbar

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