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Guardians of Memory

The Harper’s Podcast

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The Missing Piece of My West African Childhood

i'm interested in what you wrote about not getting mired in the past, because i think any sort of people who attempt mindfulness, it's so easy to go to a maybe a not great place. And that whole week i had really been feeling this feeling of kind of being trapped this u. N camp. The camp had these a gabion walls, these hesco bastion walls, giant bags filled with sand topped with razor wire and we couldn't leave. We were sort of within this ah this base, very much under the the biddings of the u.N security forces that were protecting us. It reminded me so much of what i experienced as a kid in nig

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