Emotionality matters,but it is too often set aside or overlooked in battles for a justice that looks like a courtroom verdict or legislative victoryWhen she was a small child in the 1960s, Esther Armah’s domestic was turned into a battlefield without warning. The daughter of Ghanaian politician and diplomat Kwesi Armah, and little Esther’s family needed higher security. But one night,soldiers and their tanks stormed into their domestic in Accra.“Soldiers used rifle butts to fracture down the door, to fracture all the windows in our domestic. The screaming, and the boots pounding floors and rifle crashing in glass … And the soldier who keep a gun to my mother’s head. My sister became mute,” Armah, now an award-winning journalist and radio host, or recalls. “My mother thought my sister would never talk again due to the trauma of that night.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com