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BRATTLEBORO â At this moment in the United States, South Africa can provide lessons on how to navigate the vestiges of historic and current white supremacy, a growing polarized electoral constituency, and efforts to foster justice through âtruth and reconciliationâ processes.
The Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) will present the Rev. Dr. Scott Couper to discuss his research and book on South African anti-apartheid politician Albert Luthuli in a Zoom webinar on Sunday, Feb. 21, from 4 to 5:30 pm. WWAC Chair Clare Gillis will moderate. Registration is required at https://www.windhamworldaffairscouncil.org.
Luthuli was a long-time president-general of the African National Congress (ANC), as well as the first Black African to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1960), yet his name is virtually unknown outside of South Africa, especially compared to his much more famous comrade Nelson Mandela.
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Leadership in Question part 8: Luthuli, a Christian Chief with integrity, is deposed by the apartheid regime
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Leadership in Question part 8: Luthuli, a Christian Chief with integrity, is deposed by the apartheid regime
Leadership in Question part 8: Luthuli, a Christian Chief with integrity, is deposed by the apartheid regime
Leadership in Question Part Seven: Chief Albert Luthuli’s leadership comprised multiple, mutually respectful identities
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Chief Albert Luthuli inhabited multiple worlds, as a Christian, an elected chief whose chiefdom comprised mainly people who did not accept the Christian message, and he led the ANC, an organisation comprising Africans. But Luthuli reached out to all communities and his following included many whites. That even whites admired him could well have been a motive for foul play leading to his ‘mysterious’ death.
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Some of those who have read my work may be weary of the continual return to Chief Albert Luthuli. I do so because his life has a bearing on some of the most important issues of our time, questions that continue to bedevil our relationships with one another and the qualities of leadership that we seek.
Luthuli’s life has relevance to the scourge of violence and the status of nonviolence, and the value placed on peace in our lives, the relevance of religious beliefs in a secular society, questions of masculinity and gender equality, ethical leadership and the question of service, and the interrelationship between numerous identities and communities that coexist in South Africa. It bears on bravery, but not the bravery of the daredevil. It is a bravery that is carefully considered and requires preparation. This leads to a willingness to sacrifice, even to the point of offering one’s life in the service of freedom.