African understanding of interconnectedness. For Tutu, Descartes’ adage needs adapting to ‘I am human and therefore I belong’ or ‘I am because you are’. It is interesting that very young children also seem to understand this. When one of my daughters was younger, she was asked in a playgroup to draw a picture of herself. She sat very carefully drawing for much longer than the rest of her friends and finally came to show me the results of her artwork. There on the page was a carefully drawn picture