by Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba
The word "Ubuntu" is an ethic or African humanist philosophy that focuses on people's allegiances and relations with one another. With its origins in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa, this traditional African concept is defined in its simplest form as the "art of being human". The word "Ubuntu" itself is Zulu and inspires us to embrace and learn from other people, even as we learn from ourselves. Ubuntu is the humanistic experience of treating all people, irrespective of who they are, or where they come from, as human beings living together in one lager community of beings. Ubuntu is an African view of life and world view.(More...)
