This blog will from now on focus on South Africa and the region.
Previously, it was as an eye on Haiti, where I spent 10 months serving in a local human rights organization, trying to make myself useful while digging as deep as possible into the history, culture and politics. It was a wonderful experience, in a magical country.
Sadly and not for the first time, an unwanted event on 12 January 2010 changed the whole history of the country. The beauty of the island and the incredible resilience of its people remain however strongly with me, and whenever an interesting article or video pops up, I won’t hesitate to post it here.
So it’s South Africa now.
Change is good, and necessary. Because nobody, as an individual, can be more important than what he or she works for, what he or she is interested it or fights for and stands for. Tragically, in development cooperation, one often witnesses the opposite.
South Africa however, seems to have produced an exception on that rule: Nelson Mandela, the highest moral voice alive today.
tbc
