According to some, Ubuntu is defined as “humanity towards others”. Other sources indicate that the term translates as “I am, because we are”, or “I am, because you are”. In this storybook, you will encounter many more interpretations of this term, as each of us from the second cohort of the African Young Women Leaders (AfYWL) Fellowship Programme provides her own personal interpretation of Ubuntu. Whatever the words chosen, the meaning remains the same: that humanity is fundamentally interconnected, that we all form part of a greater whole, and above all – that our individual wellbeing is fundamentally tied to the wellbeing of others.