People may
die but their ideologies will live.
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Heart-shaped
Africa is the feeling centre of the world.
Continents
are metaphors.
A people are
spiritual states of humanity as distinguishable in what they represent as
roses, lions, and stars.
Have we
forgotten what Africa is?
Africa is
our dreamland, our spiritual homeland.
There is a
realm in everyone that is Africa. We all have an Africa within.
When the
Africa outside is sick with troubles, the Africa inside makes us sick with
neuroses.
Inexplicable
psychic illness in the world is possibly, indirectly, connected to the troubles
in Africa.
We have to
heal the Africa in us if we are going to be whole again.
An extract from Ben Okri’s book – A time for new dreams
Last night at the University of Cape Town Ben Okri delivered an honourable 13th
Steve Biko memorial lecture – here’s to technology…
check out the video
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