Ubuntu

A common traditional S.An worldview is ubuntu, meaning ‘I am, because you are’. This is obv. strikingly different to the Western viewpoint. It shows that community and relationship is at the heart of what it is to be an African. Consequently many of them struggle to understand individualism and also sometime belifes and behaviours related to it. E.G. We had several lessons in Ethics of Sexuality discussing the difference between the Western view that many marry because the 2 individuals are in love and choose to marry one another, rather than marrying for the good of ones community and family.