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Time for some 'UBUNTU' Spirit.....a wonderful Zulu word. (I grew up there but did not learn much Zulu myself).

According to Michael Onyebuchi Eze, the core of ubuntu can best be summarised as follows:

'A 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. It is a demand for a creative intersubjective formation in which the ‘other’ becomes a mirror (but only a mirror) for my subjectivity. 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. Humanity is a quality we owe to each other. We create each other and need to sustain this otherness creation. And if we belong to each other, we participate in our creations: we are because you are, and since you are, definitely I am. The ‘I am’ is not a rigid subject, but a dynamic self-constitution dependent on this otherness creation of relation and distance'

Nelson Mandela explained Ubuntu as follows...

"A traveller through a country would stop at a village and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food and attend him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu, but it will have various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not address themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to be able to improve?"

Allamanda 8 June 14
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Yeah ; this is a wonderful concept ❗🎊
I am on board with it = long over do . This would work on other🌐problems that need addressing; progress across the board is stymied if we canNOT pull together 🏳️🌈
Thanks

BBJong Level 7 June 15, 2020
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Dang, and I thought it was a Linux Distro.

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We create hate or love in the zone around us. And we control it.

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We could do with more of that in the world today

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I don't know if the terminology may be different in Kenya, but the same sentiment exists. It is customary to offer food/ sustenance or a place of rest for all visitors. Every home I entered engaged this spirit. Definitely one we could benefit from adopting.

@Allamanda kinda what I was thinking. 🙂

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this sounds very close to the "do unto others....." bit, but more like "exist unto others..."

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