Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #135
On one level, ICC Witness #135 might be an effort to speak for the dead, which is a slightly different thing than speaking for the…
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
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Unthinkable Tableaus
Why does Pieter Hugo's "Portraits of Reconciliation" make us “speechless”? Leave us with “no words”? Why might we find it “stunning”? “Powerful”? “Inspiring”?
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Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #69
ICC Witness Recalls Order to Evict Kikuyus: "When a convoy passed by, I heard Sammy Ruto saying that the results had been announced and ODM…
Reading the ICC Witness Project: (un)Witness #20, #22, #34
"Indicative of attempts to undermine the ICC process were the plethora of attacks against witnesses. This included intimidating, bribing, and killing them. The message being…
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #140
"Doggerel is a derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value. The word probably derived from dog, suggesting either ugliness, puppyish clumsiness, or unpalatability…
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #124
If this was a question—a simple prose sentence—it would open outward: in the answer to the question, we would find its wholeness, completion. It would…
"This is when things got weird. And ugly."
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(Some Provisional Writing on) Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project"
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"Performance in Shailja Patel's 'Migritude'"
For whatever reason, I was digging through some old papers (actually, the depths of my inbox) and I came across the notes for a paper…
The World and What it Isn't: Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names."
Everyone knows that the world is what it is and that men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. What this post presupposes is, maybe it isn't?
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It was far from poetry, less than a journal, and worthless as history. Sunday Reading.
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