Eleneus Akanga and Lotte Hughes

Eleneus Akanga is a Rwandan journalist based in the UK. He fled Rwanda in 2007 after his newspaper The Weekly Post was shut down by the government. Dr Lotte Hughes is an historian of Africa and empire, and a journalist, who has written extensively about Kenya. Her publications include the chapter ‘Memorialisation and Mau Mau. A critical review’, in Julie MacArthur (ed.), Dedan Kimathi on Trial. Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion (Ohio University Press, 2017). Academic profile: https://open.academia.edu/LotteHughes

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