ABSTRACT
Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, which means, a person is a person through persons. Or, in the words of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu (2000:35): “I am human because I belong” and “Social harmony is for us the summum bonum – the greatest good.”
