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Zakiyah’s first trip to South Africa was 2006. She has been my assistant officially and unofficially since that time. I have now known her for over 15 years, and she has become one of the main reasons for the success of the Pedagogy Of Action. I could not have continued a project as intense and exhausting as the Pedagogy Of Action without her commitment and passion for the transformative work of this project. She was present for every POA study abroad since 2006. It was her spirit and her radical love for the communities with whom we worked and the many students who never traveled or went to another country that made everyone feel connected that they were not alone and that we were a family. With Zakiyah, we were able to live the principles that we espoused.
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The phrase ‘love in action’ has been used by many. Here, I’d like to reference Thích Nhất Hanh’s 1993 book, Love in Action.
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Marion Berger in, “Speaking True Words to One Another and to South Africa,” POA paper, July 2015.
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No Future Without Forgiveness, 1999.
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 2005, p. 89.
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Desmond Tutu (1999, p. 31).
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I have also quoted from my own notes from conversations at Rainsgrove Lodge, Durban, SA: Ms. Priscilla, Nesha’s intuition, HIV Serves, Nesha meeting Mr. Ahmed Kathrada, and I have quoted myself from the videotaped 2015 POA Symposium.
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Sayyed, Z., Haniff, N.Z. (2022). The Spirit of POA. In: Haniff, N.Z. (eds) The Pedagogy of Action. Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0801-9_15
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