Memory as Medicine

Papel Cosmologies and Spiritual

A friend I made this year reminded me to “re-member” myself. Memory-keeping is in itself a practice that requires great care- one that we shoulder generation to generation, fluid identity that remembers in new bodies.

“Nunde Sara Kumbasa?
Na kolonia oh
Nunde Saidu? Saidu Njai?
Na kolonia oh
Nunde Idy? Idy Djalo?
Na kolonia oh
Nunde Johny?
Ku si ermon na kolonia oh”