Describe how Ubuntu fight social challenges:

What is Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is a South African Zulu word that means “I am, because you are“. Furthermore, the word ubuntu is a part of the Zulu phrase “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”, which literally means that “a person is a person through other people.” Ubuntu is centered in promoting humane tendencies towards one another. Ubuntu empowers communities to thrive during hardships.

Example of applying Ubuntu principles on fighting social challenges

Applying ubuntu principles in a community can help fight social challenges such as Crime, Poverty, and Moral Decay:

• communality – helping your neighbour in times of need
• respect and dignity – it is hard for individuals in a society to hurt the people they respect
• acceptance,
• sharing – with one another
• co-responsibility as a society on fighting social challenges
• humaneness towards one another
• social justice to people who are wronged
• morality,
• group solidarity,
• showing compassion towards one another