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

23/11/2024 43 min Temporada 1 Episodio 11
"Memory will break your heart, memory will also heal you." - Didi Cheeka

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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.🍲04:57 How he came to memory work08:02 Taught to forget, to be numb, to fear difference, to avoid our internal truths12:48 Values19:18 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-Nationalism34:57 The Healing Power of Archives 🍲Website: sweetmedicine.me Newsletter: studiostyles.substack.com.Instagram: @ss.studiostylesSupport Sweet Medicine: https://flutterwave.com/donate/olt4tbjytsjr Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.