Opinion: The Need for Ubuntu, By Adetola Salau
A decade or two later, how would we recount the events that are taking place right now to our children and grand children? Would we be asserting our rights as sovereign nations or sharing about how we recall our communal African values?
When I was a little girl, my mom taught me African history, about Benin Kingdom, the Zulus, the Oyo Empire and history of the Ijaws. As a child, I didn’t understand the importance of what she was doing because all I knew was the town I lived in and comprehending anything beyond seemed meaningless. I avoid discussing current affairs for the most part but the recent videos on the news both in South Africa and in Nigeria were truly disturbing – with people carrying out mob action involving violence against foreigners in their midst and then the “revenge” actions of people who went about looting and burning stores.
I know what I would rather have us recollecting: How we come together to solve problems that we have here in Africa; thereby lifting one another up as brothers and sisters.
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