I am confident now more than ever that there is so much we can do on the African continent to…

Sela Muyoka Musundi
Dr. Sela Muyoka Musundi holds a PhD in cultural studies in education from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and a Graduate Certificate in women’s, gender & sexuality studies from the same school. Sela is an independent gender consultant and researcher based in Kenya. Sela has previously taught gender studies in Kenya and Rwanda. Her primary research interests include: the intersectionality of war, gender and women’s sexual and reproductive health, the lived experiences of women rape survivors and their children born of war rape, personhood among children born of war, female infertility, and the use of assisted reproductive technologies in East Africa. Sela’s most recent research project investigates the ways that young Rwandans born because of rape during the 1994 genocide construct selfhood in the aftermath of a traumatic childhood. She received an APN Individual Research Grant in 2018.
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The Challenge of Mothering in the Context of Violent Conflict: How War Is Impacting Women in Tigray, Ethiopia
August 11, 2021
On June 22, 2021, the Ethiopian Air Force conducted an aerial bombardment of a busy marketplace in the village of…
Genocidal Rape? The Tigray Conflict and Women’s Bodies as a Battleground
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Understanding Selfhood among Young People Who Were Born Out of Genocide Rape in Rwanda
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One Saturday afternoon in 2013, I was at home in Kigali, Rwanda watching television when I randomly came across a…
How Rwanda is Teaching Peace Education Through Ubumuntu Conversations
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As we close the curtain on the annual Kwibuka period here in Rwanda, the Ubumuntu Conversations have challenged those of…