Introduction
The Ubuntu is one of African approaches of understanding the humanity as a process of building cohesion and humanness when it comes to building peace in our daily life. This approach is religious, political and moral dimensions which will allow grasping its foundation being based on the emphasis of promotion of ethics for the humankind. This assignment will outlined the following; what is Ubuntu, The background of Ubuntu, Principles of Ubuntu and conclusion.
What is Ubuntu?
The concept of Ubuntu has become well known all over the world as being typical of African and specifically South African culture which give direct way and specific directions to humanity and personhood. According to Battle (2009:2) the word Ubuntu
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People who advocate for Ubuntu
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013)
According to Biography.com Nelson Mandela ws born on July 18,1918 in Mveso,Transkei South Africa.Becoming actively involved I anti-apartheid movement in his 20s,Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942.for 20 years he directed a campaign of peaceful,non-violent defiance against South African government and its racist policies.in 1994 Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.Mandela died at his house in Johannesburg on December the 5th 2013,at the age of 95
DESMOND MPILO TUTU(1931)
According to Biography.com,Desond Mpilo Tutu was born on October the 7th 1931 in Klearksdorp,South Africa.His father was an elementary school principal and his mother worked cooking and cleaning at a school for the blind.The South Africaof Tutu’s youth was rigidly segregated,with black Africans denied the rights to vote and forced to live in specific areas.Tutu graduated from high school in 1950 and although he had been accepted into medcal school,his famly could not afford the expensive tuition.Instead he accepted a scholarship to study educaton at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and graduated with teaceher’s certificate in
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According to Nussbaum (2003:2) Ubuntu is a tradition called ukusisa (helping others) which entails the following general principals of Ubuntu as outlined below:
• The hallmark of Ubuntu is about listening to and affirming others with the help of processes that create trust, fairness, shared understanding and dignity and harmony in relationships.
• Ubuntu consciousness is about the desire to build a caring, sustainable and just response to the community – whether that be company, village, city, nation or our global family.
• Because of its emphasis on our common humanity and the ethical call to embody our communal responsiveness in the world, Ubuntu offers an alternative way to re-create a world that works for all. Simply put, people, businesses and countries would re-learn how to live together with respect, compassion and dignity and justice and to re-organize resources accordingly.
• Ubuntu, applied to business and corporate responsibility, would be ultimately about sharing wealth and making (at the very least) basic services, such as food, housing and access to health and education accessible and visible to all members of our global
Nelson Mandela (His birth name is Rolihlahla) on July 18, 1918 in a South African village called Mvezo. He went to a local missionary school where it is not rare for teachers to give African kids English names.One of his teachers gave him the name Nelson. He went to Clarkebury Boarding Institute and Healdtown, a Methodist secondary school. When he was there he was very good at boxing and running track. In 1939 at age 21 he
Linux is a free open-source software that anybody can use . Most people use computers don't even know that Linux exists. Most people just use whatever is already downloaded onto the computer. Or if they buy computer that has no software on it they would buy Windows or Mac since it's displayed in many stores. Difference between Linux and windows / Macs is that you can download a version that specifically displays OS that relates to what you want to use it for. For example there's different distributions that are customized to be only used for editing software. or on the other hand many people just want to use the terminal or start with a o s that is used for coding. Either way you can find many different types of Linux that you can download anywhere on the internet. all of these being free. this is one of the main
Linux, or what is here and there known as Unix on a lesser scale is considered and institutionalized on the premise of an open source framework and free for conveyance (Eckert, 2016). The principle reason we see Linux utilized on a constrained premise is because we live in a prevalently Windows Operating System world. Another component conflicting with Linux is that being open source, you need to go get it and really put it on the PC yourself as a client and this is something that numerous clients are somewhat hesitant to attempt and fulfill. A third variable that
Cost efficient. For using Linux Boeing can save cost that would increase its net income.
Umoja means to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. The importance of this is that through the support of the "tribe" we are able to prosper. Many African
I am going to begin by asking who is Nelson Mandela. Because his name is very popular in the old and new generation. Nelson Mandela was born July 18,1918 in mvezo, south Africa
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While of a similar flavor to that of Windows 7 Ubuntu is a Debian based desktop distribution. Ubuntu is a good general desktop application geared more toward graphic multimedia usage. Ubuntu also has the ability to run some Microsoft programs such as Microsoft Office through the use of a software program called wine which allows Linux like operating systems to run windows applications.
The basic principal of Ubuntu is that a the success of a person is measured by the success of his community and the people around him, meaning that if your community is healthy and prospering than the individual is also healthy and prospering.
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There is a Xhosa expression associated with Ubuntu which says: “Umunutungumuntungabantu”. In English this means: “A person is a person through other people” (Sigger, Polak&Pennink, 2010). Ubuntu means humanness and it is associated with respect, solidarity, helpfulness, care, community and compassion. It is when people look out for others and not just for themselves. LovemoreMgibi came up with the concept of Ubuntu which today is a well-known concept in Africa (Heuvel, 2008 cited in Sigger et al, 2010).
The argument here that exists is that Ubuntu has no historic significance or cultural value. Its source and origin cannot be identified as it is still believed to be a discourse that was just invented for the sake of it. This is why many critics have gone to great lengths to comment that this terminology is empty and does not have any concrete relevance or even origination and should be discarded instead of being commercialized or made popular. The societies that practiced Ubuntu cannot be found either which further weaken the position of this term and its emergence as a value.
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Being one of the leading ICT groups in Africa, the main focus of the group is to provide innovative solutions by integrating products, applications, and services to enable their customers to do the best work possible with regards to their mission of leveraging the intellect of their empowered people to deliver optimised, cost-effective solutions that exceeds their stakeholders’ expectations. They intend to remain true to their values to their customers, to develop key intellectual property thus adding value to all their stakeholders.