UBUNTU, interdisciplinary conversations across continents

270pp., paperback, Stellenbosch, 2024

ISBN: 9781991260062

A collection of essays from the Ubuntu Dialogues Seminar Exchange Fellowship hosted by Stellenbosch University and Michigan State University in 2019 and 2022.

"This book features next generation rising stars from places such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Burundi, and the US, writing about ubuntu, the indigenous southern African term often used to capture African philosophy, especially its moral dimensions. A fresh, kaleidoscopic engagement with ubuntu." Professor Thaddeus Metz, University of Pretoria

Contributions include:

"Ubuntu, umuntu and human dignity" by Motsamai Molefe

"Towards re-Africanisation: Reflections on Ubuntu Philosophy and its overtone in Pan-Africanism in South Africa" by Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo

"Three stories on ubuntu or on the plausibility of ubuntu (in education)" by Precious Simba

"Ubuntu in the context of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and atrocity prevention: Retooling the top for relevant and effective leadership" by Jeanine Ntihirageza

"uBuntu and the South African law: The answer to our colonial woes? Possible uses in the public policy test" by Allison Geduld

"Ubuntu: Dialogues with nature" by Rhoda Malgas.