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Grey Spaces (Munhu chaiye)

We are all born human, but what does it mean to become a person, really a person munhu chaiye. There are numerous idioms which create paradigms of personhood, in French there is a proverb ‘il y a des gens et il y a des gens’ in Shona there is ‘ziva munhu wako’, in English the praise implicit in ‘a man among men’, or ‘she is a real Mensch’ in Yiddish, is both definite and ethereally without need for elaboration.

Grey spaces.

Pointing the finger, while looking outward is ethically and morally simple – war is bad, poverty is bad, injustice bad. It is easy to see and …