Ubuntu is a concept that originates from South-Africa, but it can be recognized in big parts of, if not all of, Africa. It is difficult to define Ubuntu, but there are lot of explanations of the concept, like f.ex:
- Compassion towards your neighbor
- ''I am because we all are''
- A person is a person because of other people
Desmond Tutu explains Ubuntu in this way:
''A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, based from a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.''
Every Norwegian travelling to Uganda, Kenya, or almost any country in Africa, is amazed at how happy these African people are. How is it possibly to live in such misery (as many, not all, African people live in) and still be as joyful as this? I think they have something that Norwegians don't have. Norway has everything that it wants, and for some years now we have been recognized as the best country in the world, according to living standards. Still, we are slowly making our way to the top of the world's suicide rate list. What is Norway lacking?
Maybe what we need is a little Ubuntu?
Maybe what we need is a little Ubuntu?
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