Show me some Honesty!

If you ask the people of India why Mahatma Gandhi was able to do what he did in India, they will say they followed him because of his absolute sincerity and his absolute dedication. Here was a man who achieved in his lifetime this bridging of the gulf between the ego and the id. Gandhi had the amazing capacity for self-criticism. This was true in individual life, in his family life, and was true in his people’s life. Gandhi criticized himself when he needed it.

Whenever he made a mistake, he confessed it publicly. Here was a man who would say to his people: ‘I’m not perfect, I’m not infallible, I don’t want you to start a religion around me, and I’m not a god. And am convinced today that there would be a religion around Gandhi, if Gandhi had not insisted, all through his life: I don’t want a religion around me because I’m too human, I’m too fallible, never think I’m infallible. And any time he made a mistake, even in his personal life, or even a decision that he made in the independence struggle, he came out in the public and said, ‘I made a mistake’.

In Africa, that is the link and the connection we want with leadership-ability to criticize and be criticized.

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