The author

My name is Antea Paviotti and I am an anthropologist. I first set foot in Burundi in 2012, when I took part in the ‘work camps’ organised by the Kamenge Youth Centre in Bujumbura. After that, I visited the country almost every year. Between 2012 and 2013, for my Master's degree in Anthropology at the University of Bologna (Italy), I studied how young people from the ‘northern neighbourhoods’ of Bujumbura viewed and considered the past and justice. In 2021, I obtained my PhD in Development Studies at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) with a thesis on the salience of feelings of identity and ethnic belonging in contemporary Burundi (‘Us’ and ‘them’: reciprocal perceptions and interactions between amoko in contemporary Burundi). I have also worked on the Twittersphere and the Burundian media landscape, and on the emotions of Burundian journalists in exile in Belgium. Today, I continue my research independently.