MaryEllen Higgins on adoption and reunion, surfing, colonial trauma, justice, reparations, Frantz Fanon, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Judith Lewis Herman, African cinema, Yamina Bachir, Rachida, Judy Kibinge, being a film producer, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Kivu Ruhorahoza, and JM Coetzee