Bam is searching for freedom from definitions. There is violence in definition. Here, traditions of making are approached as an antidote for violence. When turning her attention to her native Nigeria, she acknowledges the conflict upon its formation: an imposed state created by the Royal Niger Company in its pursuit of capital growth for the Crown. The forced shift from indigenous systems to wage labor, the privatization of communal land, the push into cash crops from subsidence farming, the indoctrination of Judeo-Christian beliefs, and the highly orchestrated assimilation of consumption culture and gender roles… are all acts of definition.