Ubuntu and the Everyday - Softcover

Ogude, James ; Dyer, Unifier

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ISBN 10: 1569026173 ISBN 13: 9781569026175

Publisher: Africa World Press, 2018

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The collection of essays in this volume seek to understand the concept of Ubuntu within the context of the everyday practices in society. To fully understand Ubuntu and its manifestation in contemporary society we need to locate it in the politics and poetics of the everyday since the everyday represents an indispensable starting point for the reconstruction of meaning. The essays argue that if the politics compel us to immerse Ubuntu in the everyday power relations, the poetics of it calls for a search for a new grammar of speaking that allows us to situate Ubuntu in our daily entanglements and in those rituals that govern our daily encounters. Most of the essays in the volume also speak to how the spectre of authoritarian control and economic deprivation in the postcolonial context, continue to undermine the core values of Ubuntu. In spite of all these threats to its realisation, the volume asserts that Ubuntu continues to exist in the everyday relational encounters between people and therefore offering the possibilities for universal ethical and moral values for humanity and humaneness.

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