Did you know that before the genocide in Rwanda the word for rape and the word for marriage was the ...

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Did you know that before the genocide in Rwanda the word for rape and the word for marriage was the same one. Very sad. but women are rebuilding Rwanda.
The word "ubuntu" in South Africa comes from a philosophy that says "the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me."
Watch Chris Abani telling stories of our shared humanity. Amazing.

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Posted by razano on 26.07.2008

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Posted by alma on 29.07.2008

The world has so much to offer and we have so much to offer back. Humanity, the love of ourselves and others. What happened? Where did we go wrong? Sometimes i feel that we made a mistake somewhere along the way and we cannot seem to catch up to fix it. Where did we go wrong?