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Jun
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Dance helps Congo’s rape survivors cope with trauma

Dance helps Congo’s rape survivors cope with trauma

NEWS
DJAFFAR AL KATANTY  IT was the silence of the traumatised young women she saw before her that convinced dance teacher Amina Lusambo she must do something to help. So she set up dance sessions for rape survivors at a rehabilitation centre attached to Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in eastern Congo, which according to hospital authorities has treated more than 60,000 survivors of sexual violence in its some 20 years of operation. Congo's eastern borderlands have remained gripped by violence since the official end of a civil war in 2003, with armed groups fighting for land, resources and self-protection. "I started…
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Oct
12
2020
By The African Mirror
How embroidery broke the silence around women’s apartheid trauma

How embroidery broke the silence around women’s apartheid trauma

HUMAN RIGHTS
PULENG SEGALO, Professor of Psychology, University of South Africa HOW do we speak trauma? We know from medicine that people embody trauma, beyond words. It shows up in our hearts and our blood pressure, our dreams and our nightmares; we pass it onto our children, and we work it through in arts, spirituality, counselling. My work has focused on a burning question in South Africa: how did women survive, care for others, and live through the many traumas of apartheid? I was interested in looking for ways to dismantle the polished narratives that circulate and are so often taken as…
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