The perspective of the Sesotho community has been greatly influenced by their rich cultural legacy and wisdom. The two core teachings that are essential to the Sesotho people are Ubuntu, which means humanity towards others and Kgale, is respect and reverence for elders.

The first teaching which is ubuntu, places a strong emphasis on the interdependent nature of all people are and how important it is to treat people with respect, kindness, and empathy. Ubuntu serves as a reminder that the people and community we interact with are impacted by the things we do. I have discovered the benefits of empathy, teamwork, and social progress thanks to this belief.  However, ubuntu influenced me to show humility, kindness and develop solid bonds based on mutual respect and trust

Secondly teaching which is "Kgale" implies respect as well as reverence for the elders including the ancestors. I acknowledge the value of consulting with elders and the wisdom, knowledge, and life experience they offer me. I now have a strong awareness for the importance of respecting our past and the value of generational wisdom all thanks to "kgale". I learned to seek guidance from my ancestors and respect my elders including every elder. Mostly to embrace the rich cultural legacy and wisdom of my community.

Networking refers to interacting with different people .This is an important aspect that everyone should practice, as this builds one's  social awareness and social activity .I experienced different networks as a basketball player, person and student generally in my personal life. Firstly I have networks with different basketball players as well as different coaches from different players. This comes from different races  however we Interact by discussing more on our games and how the game is played. Showing each other new skills and enjoying the game and with the coaches we intarct through asking them how to do things and learning the way forward from them by ensuring that we get to have each others contacts so that we can contact one other when there is an information. Basically I use my coaches as a primary source of everything I need to succeed in this game, and I can still say this works to my advantage as I am the one who benefits more by interacting with them as my coaches they expect the best out of me as much as they invest in me. Secondly as a person I get to interact with my peers mostly on my free time. I get to pass time with my peers by interacting and discussing staff that we go through daily especially with our studies and therefore by interacting with my peers on my free time is beneficial in a way because I secretly know new thing's  that I did not know which helps me to grow too as  person and we all get to grow together and show each other what to do and what not. I believe interacting with my peers is one of the ice opener for me and helps me to be more awake and careful to know what is happening around me. Last but not least as a student I network with my lectures and fellow academics at school daily through talking and information of the module they teach and also in return I am given an examination to evaluate the information I have received from my lecture after a period of time. This is a process I am going through as a student although this is more beneficial to me. I too get to exchange  my understanding of what I have been taught and add on what I personally know This type of exchange shall go on until I manage to get my desired qualification which is given a period of 3years and Lectures ensure that the give me necessary knowledge without  a doubt in order for me to produce good results every year. After receiving my degree I can know apply for a job which I know get paid at. This networking will help me in a long run and i am grateful for the opportunity. 

I woke up in the morning and checked my massages on Whatsapp as usually. I received a massage as a short notice from my coach telling us ''me and the team'' that we have a one day tournament at Mamelodi. this tournament is to celebrate easter weekend.

I had to wake up and prepare things that I will need to go with  to Mamelodi. I had to rush to the bus station and meet my teammates so that we can go . I had to make sure i am not late so that we can move o time and it took us long time to get to Mamelodi as passed by the shops to get food for everyone.

When we arrived at the venue I was excited to see various teams from different places  coming to together to challenge each  other and everything was introduced well including the purpose of the tournament. Therefore my status of being a student at North-West University was putted aside. 

I got to meet new people and socialize while the games were currently happening us winning every game made me to socialize and making people who I am hence this brought us many fans by that time which leads us to have enough supporters. We were crowned as the tournament champions and I was nominated as an Most Variable Player (MVP) for the tournament which made many people wanting to take pictures with me .

 Later that day at the end of the tournament we left the venue to our res and immediately I had to prepare myself for the following day class and getting back to my fixed status as a student  of NWU.

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In this blog I discuss the use of language to generate as well as to frame the representations  of people through Stereotypes and Othering by my view of diversity and identity.I gained my understanding on the reading of Wainaina (2005) "How to write about africa" and 

Stereotypes has played a crucial role in making the representation of people and Cultures in various froms of media and literatures. In portrayals of Stereotypes, Wainaina Challanges the widespread cliches and tropes that are currently deeply established in western storytelling about Africa , highlighting how these stereotypes not only fail to capture the diversity and complexity of African societies but the reinforce a " one size fits all" representation and often reducing people to depreciation of the continent and its people. Some examples of Stereotypes that Wainaina pokes fun at  is Associating Africa primarily with poverty,diseases  and war , without acknowledging its vibrant urban centre's , technological advancements and cultural achievements and Protraying Africa as as a unchanged,homogenous entity, rather than acknowledging its diverse cultures, languages and landscapes.

Basically Othering is a way of characterizing oneself as a "other". This has led inaccurate assumptions to be created about Africa which serves to maintain a one dimensional and offensive image of the African continent and its people.Writing about Africans in need of western help has maintained an idea that sees them as poor silent and passive recipients of knowledge and support from the west. It is seen by presenting africans as passive, overshadowed by the actions and perspectives of outsiders.

I underlined the  examples on Wainaina to emphasize the use of language to create and make representations of people  and how i view it from Wainaina perspective.