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We will have peaceful polls if we embrace spirit of Ubuntu

IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati inspects the first batch of ballot papers. [File, Standard]

I am because we are. That is the spirit of Ubuntu, the African philosophy that ‘emphasises being self through others’.

The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu summarised Ubuntu as a belief that ‘a person is person through other persons, that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with yours’. The philosophy advocates for, among other values, dignity, respect, social justice, humaneness, sharing and co-responsibility.

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