Testing, Testing

I left here nearly five years ago. And now, I am not arriving, again, but perhaps doing a fly-by or sail-by.

ubuntu

According to Michael Onyebuchi Eze, the core of ubuntu can best be summarized as follows: “A person is a person through other people strikes an affirmation of one’s humanity through recognition of an ‘other’ in his or her uniqueness and difference. It is a demand for a creative intersubjective formation in which the ‘other’ becomes a mirror (but only a mirror) for my subjectivity. This idealism suggests to us that humanity is not embedded in my person solely as an individual; my humanity is co-substantively bestowed upon the other and me. Humanity is a quality we owe to each other. We create each other and need to sustain this otherness creation. And if we belong to each other, we participate in our creations: we are because you are, and since you are, definitely I am. The ‘I am’ is not a rigid subject, but a dynamic self-constitution dependent on this otherness creation of relation and distance”. [Wikipedia]

• Eze, Michael Onyebuchi. (2010), 190-191. Intellectual history in contemporary South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-62299-9.