(oo-boon-too)
n. Zulu or Xhosa word, a traditional African belief.
Ubuntu is a term for humaneness, for caring, sharing and being in harmony with all of creation.
“Africans have a thing called
ubuntu. It is about the essence of being human, it is part of the
gift that Africa will give the world.
It embraces hospitality, caring about others,
being willing to go the extra mile for the sake of another.
We believe that a person is a person through other persons,
that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with yours. When
I dehumanize you, I inexorably dehumanize myself.
The solitary human being is a contradiction in terms.
Therefore you seek to work for the common good
because your humanity comes into its own in community,
in belonging.”
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Ubuntu
t-shirt is available in black, unisex and women's, and long sleeve black,
and hoodies in black for men or celery green for women. Also see the new
Ubuntu
keyrings
made
in South Africa.
NEW
DESIGN! Some of the Ubuntu design with the linked hands are still
available in women's and long sleeve t-shirts.
Read more
about Ubuntu
on the Wikipedia site. This is the same concept used to name Ubuntu,
the Linux operating system, which is funded by the software company of Mark
Shuttleworth, a fellow South African.
This year, the Boston Celtics used it to spur them on to great success.
We hope this helps spread the amazing message of ubuntu further: I am because
we are.
Listen
to what Pres. Bill Clinton said about Ubuntu, from the NPR website:
LISTEN
We are
human beings only within humanity - Karl Rahner
