Answer to Question #91059 in English for Khutso

Question

1. Ubuntu could be interpreted as a system of values that affects all facets of life. Do you agree with this statement? Motivate your answer with examples from traditional African life.

Answer 1

Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu term meaning "humanity". It is often translated as "I am because we are," or "humanity towards others", but is often used in a more philosophical sense to mean "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".

In Southern Africa, it has come to be used as a term for a kind of humanist philosophy, ethic, or ideology, also known as Ubuntuism propagated in the Africanisation process of these countries during the 1980s and 1990s.