"Ododo Wa" Community Dialogues

Why Grace Acan and Evelyn Amony wrote their memoirs.

Dr. Kjell Anderson asks Evelyn Amony and Grace Acan, "why did you decide you needed to write these books and what has the process been like for you, what has it meant to you?" Amony and Acan explain their reasons, which include correcting misconceptions, addressing stigma, continuing to spread the word about girls experiences in war, and for Amony, to continue her search for her missing daughter. As Amony states in Acholi, while Acan translates to English: "it would help me to search for where my child is. I felt that after writing the book, if somebody reads maybe and happens to know where such children are, then can maybe contact me and say, 'we got this kind of children here' and maybe I would get the chance to get my child."

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