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Ekpuk is an Ibibio/Efik word which loosely translates to extended family, brotherhood, community, kindred. Ekpuk have practices whereby the self is perceived primarily in relation to the perception of others and by that, Ubuntu’s spirit is inextricably linked to the community.
Ubuntu, whose interpretation range from the loose etymological translations to more philosophical renderings like John S. Mbiti’s (1990) ‘I am, because we are; and since we are, therefore I am’; is an ethno-philosophy — a system of thought that deals with the collective worldviews of diverse Africans as a unified form of knowledge b...