The paper argues that apart from socio-economic and political factors, attention should be paid to language as providing the supporting armoury for Afrophobia in South Africa. The identification of African foreign nationals as the undesirable other is coined in indigenous languages. This paper will draw from SeSotho-SeTswana and IsiZulu to show the rootedness of such discrimination in indigenous languages. Ubuntu philosophy is perceived in this paper as important in unearthing the roots of Xenophobia in South Africa because it is the basis on which local indigenous people construct what it means to be human and belong to a community. Ubuntu has traits of safeguarding peace by uniting people as a unit. On the other hand, it dehumanises the ‘other’as