Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu
meaning: a person is a person through other people.
Writing in their book "Clued up on Culture", Margaret Elion and Mercia Striman point out that Ubuntu is intuitive and is done without intellectual forethought and means acting kindly towards others, being hospitable, compassionate and fair and, above all, having sound morals. In traditional African societies, Ubuntu is demonstrated through the way adults take on a parental, sisterly or brotherly role to others in the community; orphans and problem children are absorbed into family life; weddings are open to everybody; the elderly are revered, respected and cared for.
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