At The Gambia’s Memory House, victims rewrite Jammeh-era history

Sirra Ndow, The Gambia country representative for the African Network Against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances, at Memory House in Serekunda, The Gambia [Nick Roll / Al Jazeera

Serekunda, The Gambia – A baptismal certificate. A baseball cap. Wallets, belts, neckties and bank membership cards. At first, the ordinary-seeming items do not seem fit for display in a museum.

Then, with just a few words from one of the slips of paper accompanying them, the objects’ quotidian nature takes a chilling turn.