Category Personalized Attention

The terms person and individual are often mistakenly thought to be synonymous. However, they are not. These concepts are close yet antagonistic cousins, engaged in a philosophical and cultural battle that dates back to the Enlightenment, a period when personhood began to lose ground…

“Hell is other people.” That was Jean Paul Sartre’s conclusion in his 1944 play, “No Exit” in a succinct condemnation of personal relationships; especially those that create new identities. In Africa, we are very familiar with such. Many of our…