“I still need therapy, everybody needs therapy. Post-colonial nations continue to be haunted by our past. The trauma of not being able to stand on our feet as independent nations, so much so that even basic things become a form of sorrow. Trauma is not linear; it’s cyclical. I’m a descendant of returnees who came back from the slave trade. We had a civil war, trauma of economic want, the inability to have basic needs; we don’t think about it as trauma.”