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Unfolding Narratives of Ubuntu in Southern Africa

Sheila Trahar editor Julian Müller editor John Eliastam editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Sep '20

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Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, that is, a person is a person through persons.

This edited collection illustrates the power of fictionalised representation in reporting research conducted on Ubuntu in Southern Africa. The chapters insert the concept of Ubuntu within the broad intellectual debate of self and community, to demonstrate its intellectual and philosophical value and theoretical grounding in known practices emanating from the African continent, and indeed how it works to unsettle some of our received notions of the self.

ISBN: 9780367666217

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 700g

132 pages