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Happy New Month, CultureTree family 🌿✨

March is here and we are choosing intention over pressure.

May this month bring more smiles than stress, more wins than worries, and more peace than noise. May we build boldly, rest intentionally, and stay rooted in who we are.

We saw this post on Twitter and decided to share it, especially to buttress the video we posted yesterday about producing knowledge in our indigenous languages. 🌍

The example given was the Igbo word Ndo. It is often translated as “sorry,” but it really means “I feel with you.” It expresses empathy and shared humanity in a way English does not fully capture.✨

Across Africa, there are words like this. Words that hold philosophy, emotion, and worldview within them. When we lose our languages or reduce them to quick translations, we risk losing those layers of meaning. 💔

Language is not just communication. It is knowledge. It is culture. 🙌🏾

Does your language have a word that goes beyond “sorry”?

📸: @ UjuAnya (X)