good morning in a week that my spirit
was so down having received some images
of conflict situations and deadly
attacks in some part of the continent
and having sent these images out to
friends and those who can influence to
have this kind of attacks brought to a
halt I received an invitation from
Mohammed about Ted Astri and if I can
deliver a talk and I said why not
because it was a moment that I also
wanted to embed in the kind of distress
I was in to speak to speak about
conflict situations around the way world
which premise mostly on we and we and
them so I am here but for them I tell
you a brief story about my personal
encounter with the politics of identity
of separation of difference which sums
up to we and them my little village many
years ago growing up was a small
community where everybody knew everybody
every woman was a mother to every child
and every time
sees a man as a father we didn’t have
cousins we had brothers and sisters it
was a community where we all were
interdependent and lived together yes
later when I got into public service I
supported my community even though I
wasn’t working there as a mayor of an
audacity outside the region I supported
the community in many ways in terms of
basic needs yes later I decided to
contest on a ticket of my political
party coincidentally the candidate for
the main political party in that
constraints he happened to be a relation
my father’s brother’s child was on the
other side and I thought well it’s a
contest of ideas and who best conserved
the interest of the community but he
thought differently and before we can
even discuss issues debate issues on how
to move the constituency forward it is a
deprived area to move it forward the
debate has shifted from indigence and
settlers that upon Sousou is not an
indigent of this area he is a settler
and this is a fourth generation person
you are talking about my
great-grandparents migrated from Ashanti
to this area and my grandparents to my
grand mother to my mother and then to
myself suddenly the division was on
earth
to create we and M situation but it
didn’t work it didn’t work the the
voters knew what they wanted somebody
who can lead them to have the basic
needs of life and they voted for me but
that’s what the world has become leaders
in the effort to claim claim some
entitlement employ this philosophy of
difference of separation which is we and
them and in some situations it has
turned violent the violence going on
around the world ethnic race issues
religious violence terror attacks
xenophobia and all this violence have
the underlying issue of pushing people
to the limits and in this this group is
not with us we belong here they belong
here and we have we have a world now we
have many many people are frustrated
because their needs and wants are not be
met but leadership of this world must
deal with solving the problems of the
world resources are inadequate economic
opportunities limited so many issues
confront the world but the philosophy
that gives leaders the opportunity to
rise on the back of the frustrated lot
is that differentiation of them and in
the process they the sow seeds of anger
and hatred see
of anger and hatred now I hope and did
it right okay
yeah
okay so around the world we have issues
of protests over a lot of issues
economic issues political issues
economic issues and very mental issues
name them human rights and this is what
we see mostly in our networks it is said
that when a dog bites a man it’s no news
but when a dog when a man bites a dog
that is big news so this are the images
that the media especially social media
present to us each day of all the
miseries the violence the the attacks
that go on in the world we need as
leaders to solve these issues instead of
pushing followers into a world of
violence
I’ll come back to this yeah okay
when I was depressed over what I saw in
the attacks the phobia attacks in South
Africa I also got this video and I said
I said to myself where has compassion of
humanity gondry probably will learn from
from the dogs we’ve given it to the dogs
and we learn from them here is a
situation where the dog friend was hit
but it stayed and due attention do you
attention to what was happening and
didn’t even leave are followed for the
friend to be taken for K that is empathy
that is compassion that is what humanity
is all about but what we are witnessing
today the series of attacks the misery
and all that goes with this kind of
situation is not us as human beings it
is a creation accretion of leaders to
push people into this kind of situation
of juda and betrayed where we are now as
a global community is for all of us to
work together to rescue ourselves I have
had this before that what is the point
for
anyone a sinking ship a sinking ship to
protect his or her cabin father
ship is sinking we are in a global
community where we are faced with many
many challenges the responsibility of
leadership is to come together and work
towards resolving those differences
instead of differentiating and
separating people and setting people
against each other so my coming here
this morning is to draw attention to
this reality of life it is a reality
that we are setting ourselves against
each other it doesn’t solve the problems
that we face what we need to do is to
address the challenges of our times all
of us fortunately fortunately as human
beings we have compassion we have
empathy we feel for a fellow human being
this is my favorite picture the the the
mother is not the one receiving the
injection but you can see from her face
the empathy towards the pain of the
child if we will feel that impart we
have that sense of compassion we will
not set people against other people
based on religion
based on color based on race based on
political persuasion or ethnicity we see
ourselves as part of a global community
in the zulu language able to open to
means I am what I am because of who we
all are there’s no differentiation
between black and white white and yellow
Muslim and Jew Christian and Buddhist or
name it we are all part of a global
community we are family and boom – goes
on to say that my humanity is reflected
through you my humanity is reflected
through you I’m human because I see that
in your eyes if I attack you and you are
in pain it doesn’t reflect my humanity
so for me as leaders we need to lead our
people on this path of being human the
impact of a global community and that we
see ourselves as global citizens now the
word for it is that we need to recognize
that we are all part of a global
community and we are global citizens
before individual countries or race or
ethnicity or religion we are part of a
global community we also need to reject
leaders who incite and instigate hatred
amongst ourselves leaders who incite and
instigate hatred
thirdly we need to follow leaders who
demonstrate empathy and compassion to
all leaders who build bridges leaders
who build bridges
if Miroku decides to build a wall the
rest of Africa will not have access to
the Middle East Morocco is the Gateway
for the rest of Africa to the Middle
East and the rest of the world so
leaders must build bridges and not walls
leaders must practice inclusion and not
exclusion leaders must open their arms
and admit people not to ban or expel
this is the message I bring today and I
also urge you that we all offer
ourselves as instruments of global unity
peace and progress may we all work
towards a more humane society thank you
very much for your attention
was so down having received some images
of conflict situations and deadly
attacks in some part of the continent
and having sent these images out to
friends and those who can influence to
have this kind of attacks brought to a
halt I received an invitation from
Mohammed about Ted Astri and if I can
deliver a talk and I said why not
because it was a moment that I also
wanted to embed in the kind of distress
I was in to speak to speak about
conflict situations around the way world
which premise mostly on we and we and
them so I am here but for them I tell
you a brief story about my personal
encounter with the politics of identity
of separation of difference which sums
up to we and them my little village many
years ago growing up was a small
community where everybody knew everybody
every woman was a mother to every child
and every time
sees a man as a father we didn’t have
cousins we had brothers and sisters it
was a community where we all were
interdependent and lived together yes
later when I got into public service I
supported my community even though I
wasn’t working there as a mayor of an
audacity outside the region I supported
the community in many ways in terms of
basic needs yes later I decided to
contest on a ticket of my political
party coincidentally the candidate for
the main political party in that
constraints he happened to be a relation
my father’s brother’s child was on the
other side and I thought well it’s a
contest of ideas and who best conserved
the interest of the community but he
thought differently and before we can
even discuss issues debate issues on how
to move the constituency forward it is a
deprived area to move it forward the
debate has shifted from indigence and
settlers that upon Sousou is not an
indigent of this area he is a settler
and this is a fourth generation person
you are talking about my
great-grandparents migrated from Ashanti
to this area and my grandparents to my
grand mother to my mother and then to
myself suddenly the division was on
earth
to create we and M situation but it
didn’t work it didn’t work the the
voters knew what they wanted somebody
who can lead them to have the basic
needs of life and they voted for me but
that’s what the world has become leaders
in the effort to claim claim some
entitlement employ this philosophy of
difference of separation which is we and
them and in some situations it has
turned violent the violence going on
around the world ethnic race issues
religious violence terror attacks
xenophobia and all this violence have
the underlying issue of pushing people
to the limits and in this this group is
not with us we belong here they belong
here and we have we have a world now we
have many many people are frustrated
because their needs and wants are not be
met but leadership of this world must
deal with solving the problems of the
world resources are inadequate economic
opportunities limited so many issues
confront the world but the philosophy
that gives leaders the opportunity to
rise on the back of the frustrated lot
is that differentiation of them and in
the process they the sow seeds of anger
and hatred see
of anger and hatred now I hope and did
it right okay
yeah
okay so around the world we have issues
of protests over a lot of issues
economic issues political issues
economic issues and very mental issues
name them human rights and this is what
we see mostly in our networks it is said
that when a dog bites a man it’s no news
but when a dog when a man bites a dog
that is big news so this are the images
that the media especially social media
present to us each day of all the
miseries the violence the the attacks
that go on in the world we need as
leaders to solve these issues instead of
pushing followers into a world of
violence
I’ll come back to this yeah okay
when I was depressed over what I saw in
the attacks the phobia attacks in South
Africa I also got this video and I said
I said to myself where has compassion of
humanity gondry probably will learn from
from the dogs we’ve given it to the dogs
and we learn from them here is a
situation where the dog friend was hit
but it stayed and due attention do you
attention to what was happening and
didn’t even leave are followed for the
friend to be taken for K that is empathy
that is compassion that is what humanity
is all about but what we are witnessing
today the series of attacks the misery
and all that goes with this kind of
situation is not us as human beings it
is a creation accretion of leaders to
push people into this kind of situation
of juda and betrayed where we are now as
a global community is for all of us to
work together to rescue ourselves I have
had this before that what is the point
for
anyone a sinking ship a sinking ship to
protect his or her cabin father
ship is sinking we are in a global
community where we are faced with many
many challenges the responsibility of
leadership is to come together and work
towards resolving those differences
instead of differentiating and
separating people and setting people
against each other so my coming here
this morning is to draw attention to
this reality of life it is a reality
that we are setting ourselves against
each other it doesn’t solve the problems
that we face what we need to do is to
address the challenges of our times all
of us fortunately fortunately as human
beings we have compassion we have
empathy we feel for a fellow human being
this is my favorite picture the the the
mother is not the one receiving the
injection but you can see from her face
the empathy towards the pain of the
child if we will feel that impart we
have that sense of compassion we will
not set people against other people
based on religion
based on color based on race based on
political persuasion or ethnicity we see
ourselves as part of a global community
in the zulu language able to open to
means I am what I am because of who we
all are there’s no differentiation
between black and white white and yellow
Muslim and Jew Christian and Buddhist or
name it we are all part of a global
community we are family and boom – goes
on to say that my humanity is reflected
through you my humanity is reflected
through you I’m human because I see that
in your eyes if I attack you and you are
in pain it doesn’t reflect my humanity
so for me as leaders we need to lead our
people on this path of being human the
impact of a global community and that we
see ourselves as global citizens now the
word for it is that we need to recognize
that we are all part of a global
community and we are global citizens
before individual countries or race or
ethnicity or religion we are part of a
global community we also need to reject
leaders who incite and instigate hatred
amongst ourselves leaders who incite and
instigate hatred
thirdly we need to follow leaders who
demonstrate empathy and compassion to
all leaders who build bridges leaders
who build bridges
if Miroku decides to build a wall the
rest of Africa will not have access to
the Middle East Morocco is the Gateway
for the rest of Africa to the Middle
East and the rest of the world so
leaders must build bridges and not walls
leaders must practice inclusion and not
exclusion leaders must open their arms
and admit people not to ban or expel
this is the message I bring today and I
also urge you that we all offer
ourselves as instruments of global unity
peace and progress may we all work
towards a more humane society thank you
very much for your attention
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