Ubuntu – Curating the archive

Abstract

"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. 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.