{"id":13419,"date":"2020-11-30T10:05:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T09:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/?post_type=focus&p=13419"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T11:05:13","slug":"mogoya","status":"publish","type":"focus","link":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/mogoya\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogoya"},"content":{"rendered":"

My son comes into the kitchen with a stack of dirty plates and dumps them in the sink. I ask him to put them in the dishwasher. He walks out in a sulk. The former President of Mali\u2019s son, Karim Keita, is filmed sipping Mo\u00ebt and Chandon on a luxury yacht somewhere near the Balearic islands, surrounded by hot young flesh, while many Malian citizens are wondering where their next few meals are coming from, or whether it\u2019s safe enough to travel to their local market to buy grain. To varying degrees, both my son and the former President\u2019s son are guilty of flouting the principles of mogoya<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mogoya is a Mand\u00e9 word that\u2019s often translated as \u2018human-ness\u2019 or \u2018person-hood\u2019. I find that translation unsatisfactory because a human or a person can be good or bad. A better approximation is the Yiddish word \u2018mensch\u2019. A \u2018mogo\u2019 is a mensch, and \u2018mogoya\u2019 is mensch-ness.<\/p>\n

Oumou Sangar\u00e9 - Mogoya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n