Ubuntu by Souleymane Bachir Diagne HARDBACK 9781509570898

UbuntuConversations with Franoise Blum\nAuthor(s): Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Andrew Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509570898, 978-1509570898\nSynopsis\nUbuntu, a Bantu word that became the first term from an Indigenous language to enter a political constitution, is host to many meanings: 'humanity', 'fraternity', 'compassion', and even 'forming a community'. According to Souleymane Bachir Diagne, all these conceptions come together in the art of making the community better and in the understanding of humanity as a task to be fulfilled. Ubuntu dissolves tribalism, leaving in its stead an embrace of the plural within universality. In this book Diagne recounts how Ubuntu became a dynamic philosophical concept whose humanist potential would rise to the urgent challenge of dismantling apartheid and healing its ravages.\n\nThis theme is also an opportunity for Diagne to retrace his own intellectual trajectory.