Déclaration d’intérêts
Marie Rose Tshite works as the Executive Director of the Salama Women’s Institute, which is a non-profit organization that has built a digital archive and Peace Stele to uncover some of the untold stories of Congolese women’s activism in the Inter-Congolese Dialogue in South Africa twenty years ago.
The author has conducted this research under the Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship and has received additional internal funding from the University of Cincinnati, including the University Research Council Graduate Student Award, the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center Graduate Enrichment Award for fieldwork in the DRC. She has received external funds from the Swiss Embassy in the DRC, BEIF-ODD 2030, UN Women, UNDP, MONUSCO, NDI, YALI-RDC, L’association des Femmes d’Exception du Congo and numerous other partners who supported this project over the past 3 years. This includes government funds from the Ministry of Communication, Arts, Culture, and Patrimoines to conduct additional archival research to document the narratives of the women of Sun City. The author is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati.
Auteur: Marie-Rose Tshite, PHD Student, University of Cincinnati
