FEPA "Sfe makes a powerful argument that community
values are the seedbed of development in Africa.
Africans who are not alienated from these values
will provide the best inputs how development
initiatives can work. this is a short version of the
longer online text, which provides many more
examples from the social reality of the
communities and the disconnect of development
from that lifeworld.
There is not a more Afro-centric culture that is
more misunderstood than the concept of
Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a Bantu word that means to
be human. It is not a mere Sub Saharan Africa
concept but the general ethos of being African.
This concept says without you there is no me and
without me there is no you. We are one and
belong to each other -the greater community of
humanity."
