Ubuntu, literally humanness, as a way of life, is as old as African civilization itself. And we saw in the past publications that the African civilization of ancient Egypt is the oldest in human history.
The origin of the word muntu (person) is traceable to Egyptian hieroglyphics; because in the dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphics by EA Wallis Budge, the pictorial representation for Ntu reads as people or community. In the recent past, many famous academicians such as Prof Mogobe Ramose, Dr De Jada, and Prof Dani W Nabudere (RIP), popularized it.
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