Aminata Ndow is a Ph.D. candidate in African and African American studies at Harvard University, with a primary field in anthropology and a secondary field in critical media practice. Her research focuses on the aftermath of dictatorship and transitional justice in The Gambia, particularly how adult children of victims of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings experience mourning in the absence of mortuary rites and communal forms of remembrance. Her current work combines ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative visual methods to explore how absence, silence, and memory shape personal and collective processes of grief.
Ndow earned a B.A. in history from the University of Antwerp and an M.A. in history from Ghent University, followed by an M.A. in anthropology from Harvard.
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