Introducing Witnessing.

Personal Essays on History and Memory.

We are all amateur historians with various degrees of awareness about our production.

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Witnessing is a space for personal stories that connect individual memory to broader African histories. With Witnessing, we’re focusing on personal essays, memoirs, or even narrative interviews that explore individual, familial, or communal interactions with major historical events that have shaped Africa.


Dolphins at War

Linda Jummai Mustafa

A Detention’s Devastation

Modupeola Oyebolu