Often I hear young people say, “Thank God our generation is documenting now. Thank God we are only just starting to appreciate archives.” Unfortunately, we are not the first. As Mrs Kudirat Ayoola, the lead archivist at the National Film, Visual and Sound Archive (NFVSA) in Jos, said to me in an interview about the economics of running a public archive in Nigeria: “better soup, na money kill am.”

In this episode, I propose we do four things with with History, the discipline:
1: Accept that it is not the be all and end all, and that it will not prevent existential death.
2: Make it in our backyards.
3: Be transparent with it.
4: Fund It!


Timestamps

02:30 Exploring my Personal History and Education
11:42 Accept that it is not the be-all and end-all
16:44 Make It In Your Backyard
18:45 Be Transparent With It
21:06 Fund It!
29:11 Conclusion