ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses China Keitetsi’s autobiographical narrative Child Soldier (2002) by looking at the complexity of gendered violence, specifically against female children. The text presents domestic violence as a motive for the protagonist’s voluntary recruitment into Yoweri Museveni’s Popular Resistance Army (PRA) which later joined the Ugandan Freedom Fighters (UFF) to create the National Resistance Army (NRA). The narrative shocks its readers as page after page unravels gendered violence at home, as experienced by the protagonist. I argue in this chapter that Keitetsi represents vividly violence against children and the suffering that accompanies it, compelling her readers to think deeply about the ways in which autobiographical writing contributes to the discourse on gendered violence and human rights violations.
