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“ Memory and its temporalities remark upon other moments in time and, in doing so, invite correspondences and comparative study between formations-cultural and otherwise. Of no less importance is memory’s account of collective trauma and its truth-making utility. Against received and fixed notions, this dynamic conception of memory engages across time, place and circumstances in the human affairs of historical activity.” Michael T Martin – Situating the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive in the Play of Memory On Saturday 20 May 2023 I was part of a full house screening for Ousmane Sembene ’s The Camp at Thiaroye . Retracing the epic journey of Senegalese soldiers ‘returning home’ after fighting in the French army in WWII, this first Pan-African film produced without Western technical or co-financing assistance left me perplexed on my Eastern London bus journey back home. A humorous yet terrifying tale of oppression and massacre in a camp that I had no idea...