Lucy Hannan
Lucy Hannan (2020) is a journalist based in Britain. She worked for more than twenty years in East Africa as an international correspondent and freelance journalist, reporting for BBC radio, The Guardian (UK), Channel 4 News (TV) and other international and local media. She also worked for human rights organizations, and wrote two book-length reports on Kenya. In 2009, she founded a local media-based NGO, InformAction Ltd, which pioneered a community-centered method of film screenings and discussions.
After the 2007-8 Kenyan election crisis, she focused on the post-conflict justice process, including the subsequent Kenya cases at the International Criminal Court. Her work as a journalist and with Kenyan civil society gave her exceptional access to victims and perpetrators of the violence, and legal representatives at both the domestic and international level. She was approached by a survivor to tell their personal story. After the accused were elected in 2013, Lucy was declared ‘subversive’ by the Kenyan government. In 2016, she started research for a nonfiction book. She recently presented a paper on protection challenges in the Kenyan cases at the International Criminal Court, Assembly of States Parties, at The Hague, as a forerunner to publication.
As a Logan fellow, Lucy will work on her book—a remarkable story of loss and triumph in a crimes against humanity case at the International Criminal Court.