Unfolding Narratives of Ubuntu in Southern Africa (Routledge Contemporary Africa) 1st Edition
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| Management number | 220813805 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | US$64.00 | Model Number | 220813805 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 1138483095 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1138483095 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Dimensions | 6.38 x 0.52 x 9.45 inches |
| Item Weight | 12 ounces |
| Print length | 144 pages |
| Part of series | Routledge Contemporary Africa |
| Publication date | July 11, 2018 |
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