Ubuntu, an African moral philosophy centered on solidarity, voluntary cooperation, and fraternal human relations, is often mischaracterized as socialist. This paper refutes that claim, exposing the ideological distortion that arises from conflating Ubuntu’s humane and peaceful nature with socialism’s coercive, confiscatory, and statist foundations. Far from endorsing centralized control or forced redistribution, Ubuntu emphasizes voluntary fraternity and respect for individual dignity, rooted in the African worldview of harmony and nonaggression. By disentangling Ubuntu from foreign ideologies such as socialism—a viciously coercive and oppressive Western import—this paper restores Ubuntu to its rightful place as a moral framework, not a political or economic doctrine underpinned by state aggression. The paper also highlights Africonomics as a more appropriate economic model for African societies, one that aligns with Ubuntu’s ethic of peace, natural rights, and voluntary cooperation.