Human Rights Project and Human Rights Program Present
Agnes Kamara-Umunna: “Straight from the Heart”
Kamara-Umunna’s call-in show was a daring experiment in how radio could be used to facilitate open conversations among perpetrators and victims about the shared devastation of war, conversations that would likely not have taken place elsewhere.
Though the call-in program is no longer on the air, Straight from the Heart (STFH) has become two new and distinct projects in their own right: One the one hand, the radio dimension of STFH has become One Liberia Advocacy Radio, a new radio station that Agnes Umunna and her team have created to bridge the information gap between Liberia’s poorest women groups, ex-combantants, and survivors of the Liberian civil war and the rest of the country.
The other project to emerge from STFH, which retained the name Straight from the Heart, is program offering counseling and support services for women affected by war, “transforming their lives from dysfunctional to a renaissance of civil and moral decency and dignity.” Read more about this latest SFTH project here.
To read more about this remarkable project, see this 2007 New York Times profile of Agnes Kamara-Umunna.
This event is co-sponsored at Bard by the Anthropology Program and the Africana Studies Program, and is presented in collaboration with the Oral History Summer School in Hudson, New York.
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For more information, call 215-378-2767, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://hrp.bard.edu/event/agnes-umunnas-straight-from-the-heart-liberian-trc-call-in-radio-program/.
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102