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We just arrived in Johannesburg after spending three days with Credo Mutwa, the famous Zulu Sangoma who lives in the small town of Kuruman not far from the border of Namibia.

Although in his late eighties, Credo sat with us and talked in front of the camera for hours and hours, sharing his deep understanding of Ubuntu, his feelings about the state of the world and the profoundly moving stories of his life. At the end of our third interview with Credo, he left us with this closing message, one that I was profoundly moved by:

"Awaken the mother mind within every one of you human beings. Our people believe that every human being has two minds: the mother mind and the warrior mind. The warrior mind looks at things logically: the warrior mind sees two plus two is four. But the mother mind sees nothing like that. The mother mind does not think in a linear way as warriors do. The mother mind thinks sideways, and upwards and downwards. We must awaken the mother mind within each of us. We must feel what is going on in the world. We must not listen to newspapers. We must ourselves feel! It is said by our Zulu people that women think with their pelvic area, where children grow and are born. We must think that way! We must no longer look at a tree but must see a living entity like us in that thing. We must no longer look at a stone but see the future lying dormant in that stone. We must think like grandmothers...that's all."

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee