Embed Ubuntu in Africa's political structures to create real impact

Children play at their home at Bidii centre in Kitale, Trans Nzoia County on March 25, 2022. [File, Standard]

Ubuntu is often celebrated as Africa's moral compass-a philosophy rooted in communal humanness, expressed in the well-known phrase, "I am because we are." It is supposed to define Africa's social fabric, standing as both an inheritance and an export.

However, in contemporary Africa, Ubuntu is more of an aspiration than a reality, a historical flower with no visible fruit. It neither informs political thinking nor influences responses to crises like the ongoing tragedy in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.