Khameer Kidia
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Forced to fight for the white Rhodesian army against black nationalists.
And in the army, he ended up, you know, using alcohol to cope, and alcohol became a crutch for him for the rest of his life.
My mother, you know, her experience as a child ended up causing these nervous breakdowns where she would have periods of paralytic mental distress.
She could go for weeks to months.
Where she was a shadow of herself.
She could barely interact.
She stayed in bed.
She couldn't really get up.
She was unmotivated.
And, you know, these were the very, you know, direct effects of colonialism on psychology.
But there are so many more subtle and nuanced ways that colonialism continues to have.
A psychological toll today.
You know, there are remnants in the laws and policies of Zimbabwe that govern the way the country is run, like the anti-sodomy law, which comes from the colonial era that discriminates against homosexuals.
And then there's all of the neo-colonial ways that the global north has continued to have a stronghold on the global south through mechanisms like global debt and the way that the global
political economies is set up essentially to
Take resources and labor from the global south and divert them to the global north.
And so the global north ends up living off of the global south and creating poverty and structural violence in the global south.
And so, you know, these are these are some of the ways that like colonialism, both then and now, has a psychological
I first started to think about it um when I was in medical school and I had this patient, um, one of my first patients ever, her name was Sheila, and I forget why she was in the hospital.
It was something
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