Page 9 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 30

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EDITOR's note

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. WHERE WE SHARE
OUR THOUGHTS
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 ON AFRICA
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 +254 733 489470
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!

Chioma Phillips