Colonialism

A story about the conquest of Pindiga a hundred years ago, told a few decades ago by an eyewitness, connects the destruction then with the destruction now. The storyteller also draws a connection between the different players involved in this destruction, by suggesting that the plunderers who came by order of the emir and the staff of the oil company today are seen by the villagers as both being part of colonial extractivist economies and politics. Neocolonial ruination is further reflected in stories of trauma but also in the ongoing change of the ecological environment, which is severely affected by the consequences of climate change. A last gaze on the digital reflections of this situation shows a disappearance of topological markers as well.