(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.