Ubuntu (/ubntu/ oo-buun-too; Zulu/Xhosa pronunciation: [????nt??]) is a Nguni Bantu term (literally, human-ness") roughly translating to human kindness"; in Southern Africa (South Africa and Zimbabwe), it has come to be used as a term for a kind of humanist philosophy, ethic or ideology, also known as Ubuntuism or Hunhuism (the latter after the corresponding Shona term) propagated in the Afric