How could I know I am ‘the African’?
How could I know I am ‘the African’? By Tariku Abas Etenesh (First appeared on www.theethiopianamerican.com) Whoever had said books are good companions, deserves a nod of approval from anyone who had actually made friends out of books. Some books get you new experiences, and others give you new paradigms. I had read one of the latter kinds, years ago, that deservedly lent me, since then, a perspective to frame a question as a reply for the seemly conventional view about Africa and all Africans in the mainstream western rhetoric and conception of the continent. Sight Unseen The book is entitled ‘Sight Unseen,’ and recounts an unusual conversation between two philosophers, one sighted and the other visually impaired, both working at philosophy departments of two universities. The book is a collection of emails the two professors exchanged on a topic selected by the sighted one who wanted to explore what 'reality' meant for the blind. The book recounts how the first ...