In Warscapes, solidarity and love are not less of a reality than suffering and violence.

During my time in Bukavu I had the pleasure to interview Douce Namwezi, activist and creator of Uwezo- a local Ngo that fights for women rights. Douce started her career working as a journalist and she remarqued how this experience provided her with a first hand understanding of people’s most present issues in Bukavu; and in what it was a clear attack to top-down policy programming, she remarqued how these differed- largely- from those set as priorities ‘to be fixed’ by inter

Emery is one of the few people that I know in Bukavu with a stable monthly salary. This is the story of how he managed that one; and trust me, it is not nothing. This is the tale of courage and determination in the midst of hardship that you will probably not read on the newspapers today. Looking towards Bukavu Emery is originally from Idwji, an island located in the lake Kivu and only a few kilometres away from Bukavu's coast. Beyond being an agricultural paradise, Idwji enc