Let the heart of Africa (music & drums) speak to heal "afrophobic" wounds from the black continent.
If South Africans with their insane xenophobic saga have killed the spirit of Ubuntu, one of their own making, we as Africans, we should seek no revenge… instead, Africans should unite to rebuild spirit of "Ujamaa" (familyhood).
Unlike the Ubuntu that never existed in real life, and the realisation that its an ideology invented by South Africans when they turned to Africa support to gain their independence from Apartheid, Ujamaa is the only concept that truly represent Africa spirit and forms the basis of social and economic development policies of self-reliance in the continent.
It may not be popular or practised nowadays by many of corrupts leaders in the continent but, when Mwalimu Julius Nyerere conceived it, there were two principles that are alive in every African person today regardless the race, sex, political or religious believes, sexual orientation, economic status, disability, etc. in two contexts: firstly, as referring to the extended family of African communalism; secondly, with reference to the creation of common good at time through agricultural collectives known as Ujamaa villages.
The "Ujamaa" (familyhood) was followed by Samora Machel in Mozambique, whose policies seek to recapture the principles of joint production, egalitarian distribution and the universal obligation to work which were found within African communalism.
So if anything positive emerges from these xenophobic attacks in South Africa, certainly is to strengthen South-South cooperation yes but, not by looking southwards in the continent for any leadership. We should rely on ourselves to revive the "Ujamaa" (familyhood) in every village, so that no African person, or any human being for that matter, feels unwelcome for setting a foot in any part of the black continent that he or she wish to settle.
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