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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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Human Rights Cultures: Rwanda, Kenya, Colombia and Argentina

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