[Marxism] Desmond Tutu, Bill Clinton and uMunthu

[steve sharra <sharrast@xxxxxxx>]

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Desmond Tutu, Bill Clinton and uMunthu

I first drafted this entry more out of an urge to vent, than to 
reflect. I had difficulty writing about an airport ordeal and 
connecting it to the African Renaissance and Black Consciousness, 
until I learned of the recent remarks made by Nobel peace laureate 
and retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and former US president Bill 
Clinton. Archbishop Tutu has decried the moral depravation in South 
Africa, a breakdown of uMunthu, whereas Clinton has adopted uMunthu 
(uBuntu in South Africa) and offered it as an important tool in 
dealing with the world's problems. 
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5388182.stm>Clinton was 
speaking at the Labour Party convention in the United Kingdom in 
September. What I present below is an attempt to grapple with the 
dilemma of uMunthu and self-criticism in Africa, in the context of an 
airport ordeal I was subjected to at Johannesburg International 
Airport recently (See August 27 entry). It wasn't until I heard 
Archbishop Tutu's remarks that I began making sense of my ordeal and 
what the former Archbishop fears is happening in South Africa.

full: <http://mlauzi.blogspot.com>

http://mlauzi.blogspot.com/
Midwiving the Afrikan Rebirth 


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