David Mwambari. Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 336 pp. $83. Hardback. ISBN: 9780190942304.

The idea for this forum emerged after a panel at the 66th African Studies Association (ASA) meeting in San Francisco.The ASR book review editor, Christopher Day, invited Whitaker, Longman, and Fisher to refine their reviews, and Hudani also allowed her review to be submitted.I am equally grateful to Yolande Bouka, whose contribution to the ASA panel was exceptional.As a first-time monograph author with a unique and complex positionality, I could not have wished for better colleagues to write these reviews.Some of these reviewers are mentors, friends, and senior colleagues who have generously provided me with critical feedback in the past.This response reiterates themes across the reviews -positionality