Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are
Ubuntu is the African philosophy that our humanity is bound up with others. An individual's well-being is inseparable from the community's well-being.
Ubuntu is the African philosophy that our humanity is bound up with others. An individual's well-being is inseparable from the community's well-being.
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu - A person is a person through other persons.
Southern African Wisdom
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- What Ubuntu means: I am because we are
The Nguni saying holds that a person is a person through other persons. Your wellbeing is not separable from the wellbeing of the people around you.
- What African wisdom says about forgiveness
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: a person is a person through other persons. If your humanity is constituted by your relationships, an unrepaired injury is not a wound one person carries privately, it is damage to the material both of you are made of. Forgiveness starts here as repair to a shared thing, not a gift one party hands another.