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The word Karama in Swahili means A "Gracious gift from God".
In Arabic, Karama means An "Honor, dignity".
The word Karama in the luo language of the Acholi tribe in the northern Uganda, means "celebration", a great coming together of a clan, family or group of people to celebrate, an important occasion. e.g. Christmas. Acholi people are Nilotics.
Secondly Ubuntu is a sub-Saharan African ethics or ideology focusing on the people’s allegiance and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a traditional African concept. Ubuntu is used to emphasize the need for unity. While the Zulu maxim Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu(“a person is person through other person”) Ubuntu philosophy is therefore important because it provides Africans with the sense of self- identity, self respect, and achievement.
As a creator being umuntu is the creator of his or her world, which constantly emerges and changes, in his /her existence, umuntu is the creator of politics, law religion. Through this creative activities, umuntu gains experience, knowledge and a philosophy of life based on truth. An African philosophy of life that guides the thinking and actions of Africans must therefore be found in the lived historical experiences and not from philosophical abstraction that have very little meaning to life.
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