Ubuntu, the Emotional South African Word that Reflects on Life

  Ubuntu is an ethical principle, an existential value that urges us to interconnect, live together, and respect each other. It’s a term of African origin, more specifically, of the Zulu and Xhosa languages. In fact, among the indigenous population of South Africa, there’s a beautiful and popular saying that goes “umuntu, ngumuntu, ngabantu”. It can be translated as ‘I am because we are” or ‘humanity toward others’ It’s always interesting to make contact with the linguistic legacies of other cultures. After all, language is the way in which we understand and represent the world. In the case of the…