While academic literature has long explored the ways in which colonial reification of identity
and narratives underpinning unequal racialised status of colonial subjects contributed to …

Scholarship about politics and the body in conflicts has gained prominence in academic
debates. This article advances these conversations by arguing that bodily scars are potent …

Abstract In the Atlantic Ocean island state of Cabo Verde, silence about hunger is perennial.
Elderly people who lived through devastating famines during Portuguese colonialism …

This paper does not directly engage the state-formation, political settlement and state-
building debates in Africa but it foregrounds the notion of conversation as the lens through …

This article explores how the vernacular memory of the 1940s-era Ruzagayura famine was
deployed to critique the contemporary Covid-19-induced hunger crisis in Rwanda. It …

This article investigates the violent aftermaths of Rwanda's 1994 Genocide and Liberation
war by analyzing its Gacaca Courts, which framed themselves as a “traditional” mechanism …

Seen as one of Africa's most visionary and enlightened autocrats, Paul Kagame's
presidency is often contrasted with the violence and ethnocentrism of his discredited …

This article explores the interactions between the memories of Belgian peacekeepers killed
in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the weight of the colonial past, and the Belgian foreign …

Abstract In 1994, Hutu Power extremists in Rwanda attempted to exterminate the nation's
ethnic Tutsi minority. Subsequently, Rwanda's post-genocide government established a …

Since the 'performative turn'in social sciences, ethnographers have extensively studied how
performances both constitute the subject and method of social theory but rarely understood …