Wasafiri 104: Human Rights Cultures

Issue 104: Human Rights Cultures

Guest Edited by Billy Kahora and Zoe Norridge

Editorial What Is Seen and What Is Said

Interviews Claver Irakoze and Ludmila da Silva Catela, Historias Desobedientes, Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Articles Nunca Invisibles: Insurgent Memory and Self-representation by Female Ex-combatants in Colombia; Photographing Loss: Drawing on Argentine Photography in Rwanda

Art Scale and Silence: Visual Arts and Symbolic Repair in Colombia and Kenya; The Sigh of Sorrow and the Force of Art: On the Work of Erika Diettes

Fiction Daniel Ferreira, Inés Garland, Alain-Jules Hirwa

Poetry María Teresa Andruetto, Mary Grueso Romero, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Yolande Mukagasana, Phyllis Muthoni, Natacha Muziramakenga

Life Writing Juliane Okot Bitek: Reconnecting through Poetry after War

Review Essay Narrativising and Archiving Protest in Kenya

Reviews Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron; Olivier Dabène, Street Art and Democracy in Latin America; Linda Melvern, Intent to Deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi; Peter Kimani, ed., Nairobi Noir

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Guest edited by Billy Kahora and Zoe Norridge

Editorial

What Is Seen and What Is Said
Billy Kahora and Zoe Norridge

Articles

Photographing Loss: Drawing on Argentine Photography in Rwanda
Zoe Norridge

Nunca Invisibles: Insurgent Memory and Self-representation by Female Ex-combatants in Colombia
Cherilyn Elston

Art

The Sigh of Sorrow and the Force of Art: On the Work of Erika Diettes
Vikki Bell

Scale and Silence: Visual Arts and Symbolic Repair in Colombia and Kenya
Kara Blackmore

Life Writing

Memory Inside a Fiction: Reconnecting through Poetry after War
Juliane Okot Bitek

Interviews

Private Archives, Public Deaths in Rwanda and Argentina: Conversations with Claver Irakoze and Ludmila da Silva Catela
Piotr Cieplak

A Conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez: The Novel, Form and the Weight of the Past
Billy Kahora

Two Years of Historias Desobedientes: Daughters and Sons of Genocide Perpetrators of the Military Dictatorship in Argentina
Gwendolyn Díaz-Ridgeway

Fiction

The Other Islands
Inés Garland, trans. by Sarah Moses

Lily of the Valley
Daniel Ferreira, trans. by Cherilyn Elston

Homecoming
Alain-Jules Hirwa

Poetry

The Olive Tree at La Perla; El olivo de La Perla
María Teresa Andruetto, trans. by Sarah Moses

Elsewhere and in Place; Ailleurs et dans l’espace
Yolande Mukagasana, trans. by Zoe Norridge

Paper Trail
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

The Paths that Undo Me; Les chemins qui me séparent
Natacha Muziramakenga, trans. by Zoe Norridge

A 14-day Sentence
Phyllis Muthoni

Mangrove Nights; Noches de manglar
Mary Grueso Romero, trans. by Cherilyn Elston

Reviews

Review Essay: Narrativising and Archiving Protest in Kenya
T Michael Mboya, Popular Music Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s: Okatch Biggy Live at ‘The Junction’
Keguro Macharia, Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora
Muriungi Columba, Charles Kebaya and Makokha Justus Kizito Siboe, eds., Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society
Tom Odhiambo

Peter Kimani, ed., Nairobi Noir
Bettina Ng’weno

Giuseppe Caputo, trans. by Juana Adcock and Sophie Hughes, An Orphan World
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, The Dragonfly Sea
Neo Sinoxolo Musangi

Jean E Jackson, Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia
Giovanna Micarelli

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, trans. by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre, The Adventures of China Iron
Natália Pinazza

Olivier Dabène, Street Art and Democracy in Latin America
Alba Griffin

Jimmy Tuyiringire and Souls, Radiobook Rwanda: Modern Myths
Doseline Kiguru

Linda Melvern, Intent to Deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi
Alice Musabende

Hannah Grayson and Nicki Hitchcott, eds., Rwanda since 1994: Stories of Change
Hannah Grayson, Nicki Hitchcott, Laura Blackie and Stephen Joseph, eds., After the Genocide in Rwanda: Testimonies of Violence, Change and Reconciliation
Anna Katila