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A critical assessment of ubuntu as a source for moral formation in contemporary Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022) Anofuechi, Benson Onyekachukwu; Klaasen, John Stephanus
This study presented a critical evaluation of Ubuntu as a source of moral formation in contemporary Africa. In African society, Ubuntu as a notion of African humanism has been and still is subject to much criticism. Although Ubuntu plays a role in African literature, philosophy, anthropology, ethics and theology, scholars on the continent and beyond find it to be a contested concept. The concept and approach to moral formation described in this study contributes uniquely to the already existing corpus of literature. The study explored African thinkers� perspectives of Ubuntu as a resource of moral formation and assessed its relevance in contemporary Africa.