“The thing about trauma is that you can’t say a person is traumatised. When people say they carry the trauma of others, it means they don’t know what it is. The Oriki in Yoruba tradition is the effort of tracing your roots. There’s trauma in not being able to trace your roots. There are those who don’t know, with the language disconnected from the mother tongue that carries the life before them. Trauma can be systemic, not necessarily violent. Our history is fractured; we don’t know how to organise and build. Trauma does exist. Trauma is captured in stories told.”