Violence and Memory

Emery Kalema is Assistant Professor of History at The Africa Institute at Global Studies University. He is coeditor of Textures of Power: Central Africa in the Long Twentieth Century.

"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 "Violence and Memory brings to life an intimate narrative of the Mulele rebellion from the perspective of both the victims and the perpetrators of extreme violence while showcasing compellingly how affective history can effectively be narrated and described within a postcolonial African context, paving the way for other scholars."--Didier Gondola, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University