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Ubuntu is not a slogan — it's a theory of mutual obligation

The phrase *umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu* — 'a person is a person through other people' — has been mass-printed onto coffee mugs, hashtagged onto corporate diversity slides, and generally …

5 min read · Southern Africa · 56 views