Stephen Temitope David is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) at Stellenbosch University. He holds a PhD in Literature from Stellenbosch University and a master’s degree in African Literature from the University of Ibadan. His research takes the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and its afterlife as a point of departure in examining the links that exist between nostalgia and political violence in African countries with emotionally charged histories.