I am an African speech by Thabo Mbeki (8 May 1996)
I am an African. I am born of the peoples of the continent of Africa.
The pain of the violent conflict that the peoples of Liberia, Somalia, the Sudan, Burundi and Algeria is a pain I also bear. The dismal shame of poverty, suffering and human degradation of my continent is a blight that we share. The blight on our happiness that derives from this and from our drift to the periphery of the ordering of human affairs leaves us in a persistent shadow of despair.
articulating pain and trauma May 6, 2005: Self-mutilation is a broad term for practices that involve and result in the destruction of one's own skin and tissue. Zanele Muholi speaks to a young woman who has resorted to cutting her own flesh as the only way she can express her emotional pain. [more]
I am an African speech by Thabo Mbeki (8 May 1996)
