Ubuntu — Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. A person is a person through other people. The Southern African answer to the Western question.

When you greet someone in Zulu, you do not say hello. You say Sawubona — "I see you." The reply is Yebo, sawubona — "Yes, I see you too." The conversation cannot begin until both parties have been witnessed. This is Ubuntu in one breath: I am because we are. The most powerful philosophical alternative to Western individualism still in active use anywhere in the world. It rebuilt South Africa after