I Am Because You Are: How the Spirit of Ubuntu Inspired an Unlikely Friendship and Transformed a Community

by Jacob Lief

In 1998, Jacob Lief, a 21-year-old American university student, met school teacher Malizole "Banks" Gwaxula in a township tavern in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. After bonding over beers and a shared passion for education, Gwaxula invited Lief to live with him in the township. Inspired by their fortuitous meeting-which brought together two men separated by race, nationality, and age-and by the spirit of "ubuntu," roughly translated as "I am because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623366615
• ISBN13: 9781623366612
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Rodale Press Inc.
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.1"