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"Ododo Wa" Community Dialogues YouTube: "Advocating for Justice and Reparations in Uganda" Video: This is an annotated YouTube video documenting a discussion panel in which Evelyn Amony, Grace Acan, and Isabelle Masson discuss the exhibit and advocating for justice and reparations in Uganda. The panel was held 24 October 2019 at the Moot Courtroom of Robson Hall, Faculty of Law building at the University of Manitoba

Ododo Wa Traveling Exhibit

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Annotation: CMHR curator Isabelle Masson explains the use of survivor's drawings in the exhibit design. Transcript (by Patricia Trudel): "As you see, the design is made of drawings, and drawings that were made by survivors, including Grace and Evelyn, a small group of survivors in Northern Uganda who had this experience of being kidnapped in war and enslaved by the Lord’s Resistance Army. And those drawings were the first few steps of a much longer and ongoing healing process, a process of sharing their stories and finding healing to this, and to years of this, also finding a voice and finding that they wanted to share their stories and memoirs, and now, wanting to share their stories which is quite courageous in an exhibition that you see today. So, we were quite influenced in the decision making about that and made the drawings part of the design by combining different elements of the drawings in the exhibition [...]"
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Annotation: Grace Acan explains the significance of the Blue Sweater featured in the exhibit. Transcript (by Patricia Trudel): "the school sweater. This was an important thing to us. When more than thirty girls were separated, who were supposed to remain with the rebels, and I was one of them. So all these other girls who had sweaters gave them to us because they knew we would end up, we would move in the cold and we had nothing to cover ourselves. So, they surrendered theirs. And we all had these blue sweaters. And whenever we were moving in a single line you would just see: 'That's a schoolgirl, that's a schoolgirl.' So, it gave us the warmth and it reminded me of those days at school. I kept mine until 2000 when I had a baby. I had to cut it down. I never knew how to sew or like, to be a seamstress, I never knew that, but I learned. Just, personally, using the skills that I had I cut it and I made a small sweater for my son, because we're in such a very cold place and I had nothing completely. So, this reminds me of that. So yeah, so yes this is how it is attached to me."
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Annotation: In Acholi, Evelyn Amony explains the significance of the grinding stone that is featured in the exhibit. Acan translates in Enlgish. Transcript (by Patricial Trudel): "Another item that is so important here that was so significant when we were in captivity was the grinding stone that you see here. It was like such an essential item that if you didn't have you cannot survive it was the grinding stone and jerry can water container. So you couldn't survive without these things that's why we have them here."
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Annotation: In Acholi, Evelyn Amony explains the significance of the green skirt. Grace Acan translates in English. Transcript (by Patricia Trudel): "I'm so happy today, I feel today is a great day for me. For example, if you see like this cut and how it was pierced by several bullets. Many girls did not get this chance to come back home, others drowned in water, others died that day I came back home. I feel that God brought me back for a reason, and that is why which has made me also give this chance to speak to you today."
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The Traveling Exhibit 14 Page: this page contains a photo of the traveling exhibit, audio recordings and text paired with artefacts in the exhibit. plain 2022-08-29T15:40:43-04:00 Sarah York-Bertram
In this annotated photo you will find audio recordings that explain several features included in the "Ododo Wa: Stories of Girls in War" traveling exhibit. Press the "►" icon to listen to the audio recordings linked to the traveling exhibit's features. For transcripts of the audio recording, click the link to the audio media page. Scroll down to the bottom of the image and click "Annotations." Find the associated transcript in the table below.

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- The audio recordings and quotes featured on this page are drawn from the 23 October 2019 "Ododo Wa: Stories of Girls in War" CMHR launch. If you are interested in reviewing the transcripts, please email your request to csiwproj@yorku.ca.
- The YouTube video featured on this page is from the 24 October 2019 "Advocating for Justice and Reparations in Uganda" panel at the University of Manitoba. If you are interested in reviewing the transcripts, please email your request to csiwproj@yorku.ca.