Blog Articles

For almost a decade, we researched what happened in Asaba in 1967, examining documents and interviewing survivors and witnesses to those terrible events. We presented this research in a book, The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory...

‘Creating sites of memory assumes – indeed requires – the pre-existence of a will to remember’ (Dr Andy Pearce writing about Holocaust memorialization in the UK). But memory of conflict is invariably contested, with one side erecting monuments to its victories, the...

One of the most profound moments of the public hearings of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (also known as the “Oputa Panel”) in Enugu in April 2001 was the testimony of Dr. Uriah, a medical practitioner and a native of Asaba. He had been called to...