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Fragments, cultural tensions and postcolonial societies gasping for balance

Like the muscles of the upper arm, societies grow through a rather contradictory fashion. While some forces push one way, other forces push in the opposite direction. Finding the balance between the two forces is what keeps communities, institutions and individuals rooted, grounded and sane.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the father of dialectics, was a German philosopher (1770–1831) whose work shaped modern Western thought through the idea that progress occurs through the conflict of opposing ideas. He taught that we move forward when a new idea (thesis) is counteracted by an antithesis and that the way forward is often to find the middle ground (synthesis).

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