'When the war came with all of the rhetoric about division and ethnic groups, it did not just shake my world, it shattered parts of the foundation of my upbringing.'
You were only 17 years old when the first civil war in Liberia began. What impact did the civil war have on you?I had a grounded childhood—a childhood that taught me to not to look at the difference but to embrace everyone. [My parents] always said to us, “Look at your five fingers, they are not all equal, but they all live on the hand together in harmony and they need each other.”
You managed to transform your anger and focus on healing. How did your interest in trauma healing evolve?There was this thing about the wounded healer being the best healer, and so I was like, how do I heal people? When I haven’t even found my way? There was a security project, so we decided we’d do the security women project, so we brought them together.
They said, “we’re going to arrest you.” I said, “What? I’m going to make it very easy for you all, I’ll strip naked, for you to arrest me.”
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