I've just looked at the BASA website and I saw the proverb: 'Until the
lions have their own historians, tales of hunting will always be of the
hunter'
I used to like the proverb, but it occured to me, one day, that it
implied an adversarial relationship - which is not necessarily that
case between blacks and white.
It also assumed that we belong to two irreconcilable species.
Overall I concluded that such a proverb did more harm than good.
What do others think?
Angela Allison
Coventry, UK
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