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Ubuntu : curating the archive / edited by Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Thinking AfricaPublication details: South Africa University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2014Description: xiii, 231 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781869142650
  • 1869142659
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 199/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • B5315.U28 U28 2014
Contents:
Introduction / Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla -- Justice otherwise: thoughts on Ubuntu / Lewis R. Gordon -- The historical discourse on African humanism: interrogating the paradoxes / Ama Biney -- Ubuntu verses the core values of the South African constitution / Ilze Keevy -- From ubuntu to Ubuntu: four historic a prioris / Leonhard Praeg -- Ubuntu: affirming a right and seeking remedies in South Africa / Mogobe B. Ramose -- Utu, usawa, uhuru: building blocks of Nyerere's political philosophy / Issa G. Shivji -- Ubuntu and the law: some lessons for the practical application of Ubuntu / Katherine Furman -- Ubuntu and subaltern legality / Drucilla Cornell / The self become God: Ubuntu and the 'scandal of manhood' / Siphokazi Magadla and Ezra Chitando / Concluding reflections: the 'fierce urgency of now' / Danielle Alyssa Bowler.
Summary: "This collection of essays contextualises the discourse on Ubuntu within the wider historical framework of postcolonial attempts to re-articulate African humanism as a substantial philosophy and emancipatory ideology." -- Back cover.
List(s) this item appears in: Africana
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla -- Justice otherwise: thoughts on Ubuntu / Lewis R. Gordon -- The historical discourse on African humanism: interrogating the paradoxes / Ama Biney -- Ubuntu verses the core values of the South African constitution / Ilze Keevy -- From ubuntu to Ubuntu: four historic a prioris / Leonhard Praeg -- Ubuntu: affirming a right and seeking remedies in South Africa / Mogobe B. Ramose -- Utu, usawa, uhuru: building blocks of Nyerere's political philosophy / Issa G. Shivji -- Ubuntu and the law: some lessons for the practical application of Ubuntu / Katherine Furman -- Ubuntu and subaltern legality / Drucilla Cornell / The self become God: Ubuntu and the 'scandal of manhood' / Siphokazi Magadla and Ezra Chitando / Concluding reflections: the 'fierce urgency of now' / Danielle Alyssa Bowler.

"This collection of essays contextualises the discourse on Ubuntu within the wider historical framework of postcolonial attempts to re-articulate African humanism as a substantial philosophy and emancipatory ideology." -- Back cover.

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