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Obama’s ‘revolution’ brewed in the African pot of ‘ubuntu’

By Mangoa Mosota

US President Barack Obama’s successful run for the White House in 2008 was grounded in humanist philosophy, utu in Kiswahili, or ubuntu, as is commonly called in Bantu communities, an attribute well appreciated in most of Africa.

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