Motif: UbuNtu

UbuNtu – the overarching unity-conscious worldview/cultural philosophy of BaNtu [‘persons’] which translates into English as “I am, because We are…” [John S. Mbiti]. UbuNtu is the state of organic balance, communal harmony & grace, and aesthetic beauty towards which Africa’s transformative humanizing modes of oral discourse have aspired over the millennia and throughout the Diaspora, as evident in an Africa-centered perspective of Black Popular Music…

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Ngau Kyule
December 30, 2021

An eye opener… Our true origin UbuNtu is true black race …..I call myself a Bantu… Now I know where it came from.

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- malaika mutere
  December 31, 2021
  
  If all humanity were in a state of UbuNtu-consciousness, what a wonderful world this would be @Ngau Kyule… It has been a challenge to maintain under aggressive systems of oppression, but UbuNtu has been a humanizing and civilizing force for sure.
  
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