not just a word,
…THUTO…
but a river that carries us both ways.
To teach.
To learn.
Two tides, moving together,
never divided.

In Setswana, it is one truth,
one circle:
when I give, I receive,
when I learn, I teach.
Wisdom is not a possession—
it is a passing flame,
a fire that grows the more it is shared.

And so they came—
from Botswana, from France, Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Persia, Luxembourg, America, England, Canada, Ghana, Kenya—
each voice a thread,
each story a color,
woven into one fabric.

Together they dreamed a place—
not just classrooms,
but a sanctuary of becoming.
A campus where walls rise from wisdom,
and roofs are lifted by stories.
Where every lesson is a seed,
and every learner, a teacher in bloom.

~ Alius Animus