Violence and Memory

“Violence and Memory is a brilliant contribution to postcolonial African history. The book is courageous in its embrace of a very difficult topic, which involves intense confrontations with sadistic violence and human suffering. Emery Kalema’s work offers a radically new take on the history of the Mulele rebellion, centering questions of pain, trauma, and violence that resonate through the history of modern Congo to the present. And Kalema’s strong poetic originality will not leave readers unmoved.” - Pedro Monaville, author of Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo