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Almost 4 years ago, I started documenting the names and stories of #NyayoHouse torture victims, survivors and families in a series of threads. I intended to tweet 180 names. What many of you may not know is that I didn't get to 180. I stalled at around 160. Here's the reason why
Although I had all the material -- press reports, book excerpts, and the invaluable 'We Lived To Tell' -- I didn't finish because of the impact doing the series had on my mental health and emotional stability. I started having anxiety attacks, nightmares and insomnia
Reading story after story of torture, mutilation, imprisonment, beatings, family break-ups, lost livelihoods, broken dreams, and repression can fuck with your mind, as I learned. If that is what the *stories* did to me, how much more would actually living through it?
