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[Marxism] Desmond Tutu, Bill Clinton and uMunthu



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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