Habermas, Jürgen  66

Hadraawi  40

Halabuur Centre for Communication (Djibouti)  29 n9

"Happy" (Maxamed Cali Cibaar)  see "How Wonderful! Are people not strolling through Mogadishu"

Hassan, Abdelkarim  67 n39

healing

and cognitive and emotional connectedness  16

definition by Das  15

and the politics of silence and abandonment  153

and reconciliation  174, 179–80

sociotherapy's contribution to  10

through social interaction  14–16, 195–96, 226, 235, 236–37

healing interventions  see also memory-making

Mozambique

lack of governmental programmes  9, 12, 142, 153

local resources for  151–52

Rwanda

church-based  185–87

governmental programmes  15, 179–83

non-governmental programmes  183–87

sociotherapy programme (Byumba)  187–208

South Africa  see also TRC

governmental programmes, lack of  15

state-sponsored forms of  10, 158, 213, 214–15

hiphop (musical genre)  79

history, term as used by Nora and de Certeau  34

HIV/AIDS  see also Anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment

in isicathamiya  76, 78–79, 93–96, 100

and rape  175, 190

in Somalia poetry  14

Hlela, Mkhulu  102

Holmes, Richard  231

Holocaust survivors  66

Holt, Clive  222

Home Boys Number 6  see PMB Home Boys Number 6

Homer (Odysseus)  233–34

Hopper, Charlotte  32n

"How Wonderful! Are people not strolling through Mogadishu?" (Maxamed Cali Cibaar)  57–59, 63, 64

Hunter, Mark  91

"The Hurgumo series"  67

Hutu (ethnic group)  13

and ineffectiveness of gacaca courts  179–80

as perpetrator  178

as victim  12–13, 177, 180

victimization by RPF  177, 178

violence against  175–76, 178

Hutu/Tutsi dichotomy  20, 119, 176, 203

 

ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)  179

ICU (Islamic Courts Union)  55–56, 58, 59, 62, 64

identities  see also group identity

control over  5 n2

Kikuyu  9, 12

Luo  9

of men  9, 12, 14, 89

reconstruction of  19–20, 159

Igreja, Victor

disciplinary background of  2

testimony study of  9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 141–72

focus of  142

time frame of  142

ihahamuka (mental trauma)  183–84

ilbaxnimo (Somali, urbane civility)  39

Imali yoqolo (Small of the Back Money ie The Child Benefit Grant, Pietermaritzburg Naughty Boys)  76 n2

IMF (international Monetary Fund)  129

Independence War (Mozambique, 1964-1974)  149

ingando (solidarity camps)  181

Ingelaere, B.  182

Inhazonia massacre (Mozambique, 1976)  150

Inkatha Freedom Party  8, 75, 76, 94

Interahamwe soldiers (Hutu paramilitary organization)  190

inter-est

concept of  197–98

recovering through storytelling  199–203

in sociotherapy  197

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)  179

internet  see also electronic mass media; websites

dissemination of Somali popular culture through  28–29, 32

social interaction through  1, 14, 16, 226, 235, 236–37

interviews (Mathare Valley)

Buda (interviewee 7)  118, 124

concept of ethnicity in  8–9, 14, 20

Çuçu Kingi (interviewee 4 & 6)  118–19, 122–23

Erick (interviewee 11)  126–28, 130

Kingi (interviewee 5)  121–22, 123

mediation and  18

Motion (interviewee 10)  125–26, 137

Sam (interviewee 8)  124–25

Tyson (interviewee 9)  122, 132

Wanaich (interviewee 1)  108, 109

isicathamiya (acapella singing)

abortion in  92–93

choreography in  84

and citizenship  76, 77–80, 97, 98–99, 103

competitions  81–82

courtship theme of  79, 93

fatherhood in  101–2

HIV/AIDS in  78–79, 93–96, 100

identities of men in  8, 14

language of  17

marriage in  93

masculinity in  76, 77, 79–80, 91–93, 97

as mediation of violence  14, 17, 80

rape in  84–87, 89–90, 99

religion in  89–90

women's sexuality in  92–93, 99–100

isicathamiya singers

choice of genre  17–18

group identity of  20

and self-representation  11

Isin, Engin  78, 79

isiZulu  17, 76 n2, 77 n4, 83

Islam

in "Mogadishu" (Muqdisho, Stanza)  53

in "Mogadishu, what happened?" (Muqdishooy maxaa dhacay?, Nabaddoon)  43–44, 54

in Somali poetry  7, 14, 43–44, 53–54, 57–64

in Somalia  27–28, 39  see also Islamic Courts Union; Islamist movements

Islamic Courts Union (ICU)  55–56, 58, 59, 62, 64

Islamist logic  28, 54, 65, 67–68

Islamist movements  27–28, 43, 54

Issa-Salwe, Abdisalam M.  67

Italian Somaliland  38 n16

Al-Ittixaad al-Islaami  55

izibongo (praise poetry)  102

Excerpt of the index made by Pierke Bosschieter for:

Mediation of Violence in Africa, Lidwien Kapteijns and Annemiek Richters (red.), Brill, 2010

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