Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mucina, Devi Dee

Titel

Albinism: an erasable childhood

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of Pan African studies, 2015-07, Vol.8 (2), p.276

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles: Journal of Pan African Studies

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As indigenous Ubuntu, how do we bring voices to a childhood that is marked for death? How do we stop the killing and commodification of children with albinism? How do we make children with albinism matter to us? How do we collectively see the humanity / Ubuntu of children with albinism? As we think about these questions let us remember that love and respect must guide our actions. Let us not shy away from the problem of how Albinism has become a marker that allows us to erase childhood because to allow this to happen is to lose power. I have no formulated answers but I want us to make the childhood of children with albinism matter to us. I want us to question the social political interactions and interpretations that allow us to voice violence, which lead us to murder children with albinism, while we who profess to be Ubuntu remain silent. In our silence, we are complicit in the erasure of children with albinism. I promise you, I do not speak about uncivilized actions. I do not speak about savage behavior and I do not speak about primitive ways. I do not want the colonial language and gaze to silence us. Instead, let us dialogue about the problem and the actions we can take collectively together to address this problem of marking our children for death. As we think about how to take action, I wonder if remembering that the tension and the contradiction, which embody the marking of albinism, make it clear that the body marked with albinism is no-one thing. This means we have had to create stories which justify the killing of children with albinism. If this is true, we can create other stories, which stop the killing of children with albinism? Can we create stories that help us love and respect the children with albinism?