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a codeof behaviour, an attitudeto lifeand to other people; perhaps somethingembodied in the Shona'hunu'or the Sindebele 'ubuntu' 'humanness' or 'personness'. The same thing, i believe, which black men in America call soul. This i found at Mariga.

The attention I received, the kindness, courtesy, consideration and friendliness of everyone I met, more than compensated for my physical discomfort. I felt and detected a differencein the relationship between people. there was something in this African society I had never detected in the European Communityin which i lived in Waddilove.It was difficult to say exactly what it was, yet it was unmistakably there :

"I will go home and tell our people what I know and teach my son what I have learned. I will teach him to be proud of himself and of our ancestors. I will teach him to be a free man - free from the white man's bondage.