I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE.

I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE The fundamental of human being is interdependence. We might think we have not done much for ourselves as humans, but we have, and we can, with one love, do something much more; and together, we can continue to do wonders for our fellow humans. The modern day interdependence is a clone of the Southern African philosophy, Ubuntu, which simply asserts that the collectivity of human beings, and not the sole individual power, gives humans their humanity. Michael Onyebuchi Eze, a lecturer at the department of political science, Amsterdam, described Ubuntu in relation to the saying, 'A person is a person through other people,' which depicts that a human is only fit to be addressed as a human only if he recognizes the presence and value of others irrespective of their race, colour, religion, etc. He further widened the horizon by illustrating that Ubuntu is an interaction between separate minds capable of working together to achieve common goals and fo...