Issue 30 August 2024

Senegal’s Teraanga has been described as meaning more than hospitality – rather it is a generosity of spirit, a culture of sharing, a life of community where each individual depends on the other to be strengthened and uplifted. It’s awe-inspiring just how the more we explore the ‘world’ of Afrika, the more we realize that it is all one thing: Ubuntu – Utu – Teraanga – Common Unity… community.

The artificial barriers that were erected in our hearts through the malaise and disturbance of the European invasion and distortion of reality and humanity (I’m talking way beyond the slave trade and colonialism here – I’m talking about Afrika today, about what Me’poho prophesied concerning the destruction of our culture) – those barriers and boundaries where we stopped seeing each other and being each other’s people and started individualizing and territorializing must COME DOWN NOW so that we can focus on what is really important to and for us.

30 issues (symbolic of maturity) and 33 nations honored and recognized in this magazine with their truths told and/or prayed over – we know a shift has come upon us, and what greater way to honor that than by celebrating Senegal in this 8th month of new beginnings. The Senegal whose political transformation was seen this year when Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and his friend Ousmane Sonko defeated the incumbent and Faye appointed the one who the system had said could not run as Prime Minister when he won the presidency. Teraanga in action. Sonko strengthened Faye’s campaign, Faye returned to open the way for his brother and now they rule together. That truly is a better Afrika!