Who is afraid of the humanities and social sciences in Nigeria? Find out on Sweet Medicine.
How have Nigerians been taught to think about how to be in the world? How else can we be?
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Who is afraid of the humanities and social sciences in Nigeria? Find out on Sweet Medicine.
How have Nigerians been taught to think about how to be in the world? How else can we be?
Website: sweetmedicine.me
Newsletter: studiostyles.substack.com.
Instagram: @ss.studiostyles
The manifesto season was funded through an Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop Fellowship.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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