In this episode of Conversations with Neighbours, we speak to Princess Zinzi Mhlongo, Eric ‘1 Key’ Ngangare and Omnia Abbas Shawkat about war and its remnants. Coming of age in a time of great turmoil – in the DRC, Rwanda, Sudan and South Africa. The importance of telling stories that contest both history and statehood and other forms of silence and organised forgetting. We also ponder on what it means to produce work that can contend with the violence of our present.