Aminata Ndow is a PhD Candidate at the Department of African and African American Studies and Anthropology with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. She holds a BA in History from the University of Antwerp and a MA in History from Ghent University. Her research broadly explores the dictatorship and transitional justice era in The Gambia (1994-present). Specifically, she studies how family members of victims of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings experience grief when mortuary rites for the dead are absent, rituals for mourning can’t be fulfilled and proper integration of the deceased into the memory of a community is not possible. Through ethnographic fieldwork and participatory video, she explores how children (currently young adults) who are either still looking for their disappeared parent; or received confirmation of their parent’s death, without knowing where their remains were buried; or have reburied them after being exhumed and identified, experience mourning. This project will be conducted with and by adult children of the ‘disappeared’ to consider the context and social relationships in which their loss and mourning is situated. It seeks to analyze how spaces, contexts, generations, recollections, research and artistic productions are connected; to portray disappearance’s actual manifestation and main effects; and especially to reconfigure the meaning of presence and absence.