"Memory will break your heart, memory will also heal you." - Didi Cheeka

Didi Cheeka is a filmmaker, archivist and critic. In this profound conversation, we explored shared values as the glue for true belonging, Nigerians’ collective trauma, engaging history and archival studies with a psychoanalytic lens, one problem with the concept of ‘post-colonialism’, and much more. There’s a place where he says: “Each tear that is shed, that could have been avoided, is an accusation.” The spirit of apathy hates to see this one coming.

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04:57 How he came to memory work

08:02 Taught to forget, to be numb, to fear difference, to avoid our internal truths

12:48 Values

19:18 Is dialogue enough?

21:19 Belonging and Community, how Nigerian Marxists coped after the fall of the Berlin Wall

27:52 Post-Colonialism vs. Post-Nationalism

34:57 The Healing Power of Archives

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