Hello everyone and welcome to Ikura Puneer. Once again hosted by myself Andrew along with

the rest of the crew. Mia and James. All right and today I want to take a minute to talk about Ubuntu

and not the Linux software but the African philosophy. Ubuntu is a philosophical concept for those who

don't know derived from some of the diverse and dispersed indigenous traditions of the roughly

360 million BAN to speak in peoples of Africa. BAN2, coming from the Zooli word for people,

is a language found spoken by approximately 400 distinct ethnic groups and split into

approximately 440 and 680 distinct languages, slash dialects, born as a result of the great

band to migrations that occurred in two major waves about 3,000 and 2,000 years ago across central

east and south Africa. Contrary to the maximum I think therefore I am Ubuntu roughly translated

from the Guniban to languages like Osir and Zulu means humanity and more specifically humanity

towards others. I am because you are. There are of course various names with the concept from language

to language and ethnic group to ethnic group including Boto, Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Batu, Utu etc but Ubuntu

is definitely the most prominent and internationally recognized. According to the African Journal

of Social Work Ubuntu is a collection of values and practices that people of Africa or of African

origin view as making people authentic human beings. Rather nuances of these values and practices

vary across different ethnic groups, they all point to one thing. An authentic individual human

is part of a larger and more significant relational communal societal, environmental and spiritual

world. This of course is not unique to Africa, what's any specific culture or any specific ethnic group.

I think we'll find these sort of mirroring ideas in a variety of contexts because I think it

really is something that's fundamentally human but I think it is good to look at how these ideas

have manifested in those more specific contexts. I mean in the oral literature of South Africa,

Ubuntu has been in existence from as early as the mid 19th century. The reported translations for

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