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Ubuntu : A Comparative Study of an African Concept of Justice, Paperback / softback Book

Ubuntu : A Comparative Study of an African Concept of Justice Paperback / softback

Edited by Paul Nnodim, Austin Okigbo

Paperback / softback

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The philosophy of Ubuntu in dialogue with Western normative ideas. Ubuntu is an African philosophical tradition that embodies the ability of one human being to empathize with another.

It is the quintessence of African humanism, communalism, and belonging.

As the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu anticipated, Ubuntu resonated with the moral intuition of the majority of black South Africans in the 1990s.

As a result, it became the foundational ethical basis for articulating a new post-apartheid era of reconciliation and forgiveness in the face of a history marked by brutal racial violence.

Yet Ubuntu, as a philosophy or ethical practice which has arguably come to represent African humanism and communalism, has not been sufficiently assimilated into contemporary philosophical scholarship. This anthology weaves interdisciplinary perspectives into the discourse on African relational ethics in dialogue with Western normative ideals across a wide range of issues, including justice, sustainable development, musical culture, journalism, and peace.

It explains the philosophy of Ubuntu to both African and non-African scholars.

Comprehensively written, this book will appeal to a broad audience of academic and non-academic readers. Contributors: Aboubacar Dakuyo (University of Ottawa), Brahim El Guabli (Williams College), Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian (University of Johannesburg), Damascus Kafumbe (Middlebury College), Joseph Kunnuji (University of the Free State), David Lutz (Holy Cross College, Notre Dame), Thaddeus Metz (University of Pretoria), Emmanuel-Lugard Nduka (media practitioner), Levi U.C.

Nkwocha (University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne). This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world.

Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/

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