j. Siguru Wahutu

PhD candidate
University of Minnesota

TSP Tuesdays, November 7th

by jake on Nov. 7, 2023 at The Editors' Desk
New & Noteworthy This week’s Clippings includes Samuel L. Perry‘s work in The Washington Post on new House Speaker Mike Johnson and assault weapons, Carolina Are in El País on sexualization in social media, Carolyn Liebler in The Washington Post on the Census and measuring Americans with Indigenous heritage, and Amin Ghaziani in SciTechDaily on the […]

Please Stop Using Graphic Images in Your Class

by Brooke Chambers and j. Siguru Wahutu on Jan. 5, 2021 at Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Philip Gourevitch opens his book on the Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, with a quote from Plato: Leontius, the son of Aglaion, was coming up from the Peiraeus, close to the outer side of the north wall, when he saw some dead bodies lying […]

“Falling Short of Genocide:” A Problematic Formulation

by j. Siguru Wahutu on Oct. 23, 2018 at Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Professor Philip Spencer once remarked that genocide robs humanity of diversity. This phrase has stuck with me for several years mainly due to its elegant simplicity. At its core, it suggests that we should care about genocide because denies us a chance to be diverse in the various forms and depths the word entails. Thus, […]

Why Ordinary People Kill

by j. Siguru Wahutu on Oct. 30, 2017 at Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
One of the more pressing questions I consistently get asked about genocides and mass atrocity is: What would motivate an individual to kill their neighbor? Understanding the answer holds the key to end genocides and mass atrocity. In August, former University of Minnesota graduate student, and current Ohio State professor, Hollie Nyseth Brehm’s work was cited in […]

Where is the wall-to-wall coverage? Where are the vigils? #JeSuisMogadisho

by j. Siguru Wahutu on Oct. 23, 2017 at Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
On October 14, 2017, one of the worst truck bombs ever experienced in Africa ripped the capital of Somalia, Mogadisho. On a global scale, this blast was only second to the 2016 attack in Iraq that killed 341 people in Karrada. This particular attack was so horrific that even a former Al-Shabaab leader was pictured […]
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Wahutu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation focuses on genocide and mass atrocity, media, collective memory and human rights with a regional focus on Africa. Wahutu is broadly interested in how news organizations and journalists in Africa produce knowledge about genocide and mass atrocity in neighbouring African countries. He also writes a monthly blog on current events in Africa for the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. In his free time, Wahutu plays a lot of video games and wakes up at 6:30 am on the weekends to watch the English Premier League.