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It Takes a Village - Mentorship

(image via pinterest) Today I felt like sharing a very personal letter that I wrote. I had been toying with the topic of mentorship and I could not write about it without writing about me. I also could not write about mentorship without writing about Ubuntu. (image via http://www.mothertongues.com) Ubuntu means humanity. It is a continental philosophy that revolves around compassion, humanity and humility. This is far beyond a philosophy as Africans have been practicing Ubuntu without ever needing to define it. We just believed that that is how all people are. Ubuntu in action is the community coming together to crowd fund and support a family that is known to be in need. Ubuntu is helping the old in the community. Ubuntu is about baking cookies for the wake (the days before the burial) of someone you might not know too well but lives down the road. Ubuntu is the about the whole community going to cook at night for the funeral that will be held in ...