Loh ! Utu Upi?Utu wa shoga jee haupaswi kuheshimiwa? lolz
Loh ! Utu Upi?
Azimio jipya alisema Unaweza kuzaliwa na Utu lakini ukafa Mnyama ! unaweza kuupoteza Utu wako mapema kabisa kutokana na mtindo wa maisha unayoishi. si mitindo yote ya maisha inajenga Utu.... Mitindo mingine ya maisha ni dhihirisho kuwa Utu umekufa Kabisaa ! ! FUU!
A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, based from a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."
"One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity."
"A traveller through a country would stop at a village and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu, but it will have various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to be able to improve?"
Correlation between ‘ujamaa' and ‘ubuntu' In an article titled ‘When integrity falters', Minister of Public Service and Administration, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi wrote the following about the correlation between the concepts of ‘ujamaa' and ‘ubuntu'.
"……The values of ubuntu and ujamaa inform all of us of our humanity; they tell us that we are human by virtue of the mutual support we give one another. This is the key motive force in our fight against corruption. This is the spirit we have committed ourselves to in order to create a socially cohesive and inclusive Africa that is free of corruption."
Isipokuwa napata tabu kidogo mnapo sema tafsiri ya utu inategemeana na jamii husika.
Mfano hapo kale mfalme akifa anatafutwa kijana wa kumsindikiza na anazikwa akiwa hai kampakata mfalme, na kitendo kile kilitafsiriwa kama ushuja mkubwa kwa kijana na familia yake.
Je huu ni utu kwa jamii ile?
Kimsingi wenye nguvu ndio wanao define morals za jamii husika
Tukiangalia kwenye suala hilo la ushoga kwa mfano au suala la malezi ya watoto. Waafrika tunajinsi yetu ya kulea watoto, lakini Westerners kwa vile wana nguvu wanakuwa na haki ya kutufasiria morals za malez ni zipi na ndipo tunapoanza kubadili namna ya ulezi wetu.
Inaonekana kuwa ni hivyo hivyo kwenye utu.
Ofkoz wenyenguvu ndio wana define morals hapa BongoNaamini hata hapa Bongo wenye nguvu wanaweza kuwa ndio wanao define morals zetu. Lakini sio kazi ya serkali ku-define morals zetu. Hivi hili suala ka katiba mpya halijakaa pia ki-moral au ki-utu? lol. Ni utu kumpa rais madaraka makubwa hivyo kwenye mchakato wa katiba mpya? SI "kila mtu anastahili heshima ya kutambuliwa na kuthaminiwa utu wake" kwenye mchakato mzima wa katiba? Yaliyotokea jana bungeni yalizingatia utu? lol
Kwa hiyo hapa mkuu unataka kusema zamani tulipotnga hizo sheria utu wetu ulikuwa chini, na sasa tumenyanyua viwango vya utu wetu na tumeamua kujirekebisha?
Before long tutasema tulipozuwia ndoa za jinsia moja ilikuwa ni kinyume na humanity kwa sabau wale pia wana haki ya kutambulika kisheria kama binaadamu wengine wanavyotambulika.
lol. Kama utu unaweza kupanda na kushuka kulingana na mabadiliko yanayotokea kwenye jamii may be miaka ijayo ushoga utakuwa haudhalilishi tena utu wetu wa Kiafrika. Kwamba utu sio static as it may change from time to time.
Ofkoz wenyenguvu ndio wana define morals hapa Bongo
Na kwingineko.
Great thinkers at work, don't interrupt...
Ngoja niende chit chat kwanza. 🙂
AshaDii asante for your insights. I agree with you that definition ya utu differs from society to another and even from one person to another. Kwa mfano wapo wanao- believe kuwa ni utu kumwua mtu aliyeua if certain conditions are met. From war to self-defense to defense of one's belongings to being looked at the wrong way. Lakini wapo wengine ambao wanaamini si utu kumwua mtu aliyeua regardless of the reason ya kuua. Kwa mfano ukiliza ilikuwa utu kumwua Gaddafi, hutapata jibu moja.
But pamoja na kuwa utu una vary from one society to another, does this means that hizi jamii hazina hata some very minimal shared understanding of utu? Kwa mfano South Africa wanatumia neno Ubuntu kama utu. Tukiangalia understanding yao ya Ubuntu inatofautiana sana na utu wetu?
Isipokuwa napata tabu kidogo mnapo sema tafsiri ya utu inategemeana na jamii husika.
Mfano hapo kale mfalme akifa anatafutwa kijana wa kumsindikiza na anazikwa akiwa hai kampakata mfalme, na kitendo kile kilitafsiriwa kama ushuja mkubwa kwa kijana na familia yake.
Je huu ni utu kwa jamii ile?