This idealism suggests to us that humanity is not embedded in my person solely as an individual my humanity is co-substantively bestowed upon the other and me. It is a demand for a creative intersubjective formation in which the "other" becomes a mirror (but only a mirror) for my subjectivity. In each of these examples, humanity comes from conforming to or being part of the tribe.Īccording to Michael Onyebuchi Eze, the core of ubuntu can best be summarised as follows:Ī person is a person through other people strikes an affirmation of one’s humanity through recognition of an "other" in his or her uniqueness and difference. The aspect of this that would be exemplified by a tale told (often, in private quarters) in Nguni " kushone abantu ababili ne Shangaan", in Sepedi " go tlhokofetje batho ba babedi le leShangane", in English (two people died and one Shangaan). When someone behaves according to custom, a Sotho-speaking person would say " ke motho", which means "he/she is a human".
An example is a Zulu-speaking person who when commanding to speak in Zulu would say " khuluma isintu", which means "speak the language of people". Ubuntu asserts that society gives human beings their humanity. There are many different (and not always compatible) definitions of what ubuntu is. Nelson Mandela in 2006 was asked to define "ubuntu" in a video used to launch Ubuntu Linux. While the nuances of these values and practices vary across different ethnic groups, they all point to one thing – an authentic individual human being is part of a larger and more significant relational, communal, societal, environmental and spiritual world
The journal defined ubuntu as:Ī collection of values and practices that people of Africa or of African origin view as making people authentic human beings. The most recent definition was provided by the African Journal of Social Work (AJSW). There are various definitions of the word "Ubuntu". It is also found in other Bantu countries not mentioned here. The name also differs by country, such as in Angola (kimuntu), Botswana (muthu), Burundi (ubuntu), Cameroon (bato), Republic of the Congo (RotC bantu), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC bomoto/bantu), Kenya (utu/munto/mondo), Malawi (umunthu), Mozambique (vumuntu), Namibia (omundu), Rwanda (ubuntu), South Africa (ubuntu/botho), Tanzania (utu/obuntu/bumuntu), Uganda (obuntu), Zambia (umunthu/ubuntu) and Zimbabwe (Ubuntu, unhu or hunhu). ( January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īlthough the most popular name referring to the philosophy today is Ubuntu ( Zulu language, South Africa), it has several other names in other Bantu languages. Please help improve this section if you can. The non-Bantu words should ideally also be put into a table with source languages identified. The specific problem is: Should be reformatted into a table of language(s)-word-countries. This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
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