Superficial nationalists are the losers when they trample on...
WEIGHT OF QUESTIONS
Superficial nationalists are the losers when they trample on SA’s deep roots
The deep appreciation of heritage, history, and especially of structures, traditions and histories across central Asia makes me wonder how or when we South Africans will uncover, preserve and protect, with great effort and purpose, our deep history before the arrival of Europeans, writes ISMAIL LAGARDIEN.
AS I start making my way home from east and south-east Asia, I carry the weight of questions, ideas, historical references and markers of identity, senses of belonging and unbelonging, displacement, exile, heritage, and the pride of peoples from the Korean Peninsula southward, across Taiwan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and to Pamana, the southernmost island of the Indonesian archipelago. And I find that my main interests – long-term global political, historical and social shifts – have been significantly strengthened and enhanced over the last seven months.
It is, nonetheless, the place, the people, the communities, the history and memories, embodied they are in the built environment and the transitions – over time – from one “civilisation” to the next.
At the forefont of my mind is the realisation, as I prepare to make my way home, I remember that apart from the remotest villages in the deepest Bornean jungle, or the most isolated inhabited islands in this archipelago of about 18,000, there has always been a steady and reliable stream of electricity. None the less, and with some exasperation, I am heading home to Africa’s Most Advanced Political Economy™...
Registreer gratis om hierdie artikel te lees.
Hallo! Welkom by Vrye Weekblad. Ons inhoud is nou in Afrikaans én Engels beskikbaar.
Al wat jy hoef te doen om gratis te begin lees, is om met jou e-pos te registreer en ’n wagwoord te skep.
Om dit te doen, kliek eenvoudig op “REGISTREER”.
Reeds geregistreer? Kliek op “MELD AAN” om voort te gaan.
WEIGHT OF QUESTIONS
Superficial nationalists are the losers when they trample on SA’s deep roots
The deep appreciation of heritage, history, and especially of structures, traditions and histories across central Asia makes me wonder how or when we South Africans will uncover, preserve and protect, with great effort and purpose, our deep history before the arrival of Europeans, writes ISMAIL LAGARDIEN.
Deel
AS I start making my way home from east and south-east Asia, I carry the weight of questions, ideas, historical references and markers of identity, senses of belonging and unbelonging, displacement, exile, heritage, and the pride of peoples from the Korean Peninsula southward, across Taiwan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and to Pamana, the southernmost island of the Indonesian archipelago. And I find that my main interests – long-term global political, historical and social shifts – have been significantly strengthened and enhanced over the last seven months.
It is, nonetheless, the place, the people, the communities, the history and memories, embodied they are in the built environment and the transitions – over time – from one “civilisation” to the next.
At the forefont of my mind is the realisation, as I prepare to make my way home, I remember that apart from the remotest villages in the deepest Bornean jungle, or the most isolated inhabited islands in this archipelago of about 18,000, there has always been a steady and reliable stream of electricity. None the less, and with some exasperation, I am heading home to Africa’s Most Advanced Political Economy™...
Registreer gratis om hierdie artikel te lees.
Hallo! Welkom by Vrye Weekblad. Ons inhoud is nou in Afrikaans én Engels beskikbaar.
Al wat jy hoef te doen om gratis te begin lees, is om met jou e-pos te registreer en ’n wagwoord te skep.
Om dit te doen, kliek eenvoudig op “REGISTREER”.
Reeds geregistreer? Kliek op “MELD AAN” om voort te gaan.
Vir nuwe VWB 3.0-navrae: WhatsApp 071 170 8927 (net vir teksboodskappe) of stuur 'n e-pos aan hulp@vryeweekblad.com.
Verwante Artikels
Holding on to identity through church and language
Marokko se ekonomiese groei kom uit ’n fliek
Wéér op soek na ’n nuwe SA identiteit
Diep dinge op pad van Pearl Harbor tot Botswana
’n Huis waar die wêreld nog bybels is
Deel
-
Deel
-
-
-
-
-
-
Volgende artikelIsmail Lagardien
WriterLagardien, a visiting professor at the Wits University School of Governance, has worked in the office of the chief economist of the World Bank, as well as the secretariat of the National Planning Commission.