Ubuntu: A multidisciplinary perspective to understanding and application

Volume editor

Simangele Mayisela

Volume editor

Roshini Pillay

Volume editor

Mzikazi Nduna

Synopsis

Ubuntu: A multidisciplinary perspective to understanding and application is a timely and significant contribution to contemporary African scholarship. This edited volume brings together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners who engage critically and creatively with Ubuntu as both a philosophical lens and a practical framework for transformation.

Spanning multiple disciplines, the book demonstrates the enduring relevance of Ubuntu across varied social, educational and health contexts. Rather than presenting Ubuntu as a static cultural ideal, the chapters explore its evolving meaning and application in response to complex contemporary challenges. Themes such as digital mourning, feminist mentorship, tele-audiology, early childhood development and community care illustrate how Ubuntu informs inclusive practice, ethical leadership and socially responsive scholarship.

Rooted in interconnectedness, compassion, dignity and solidarity, Ubuntu is positioned as a living and dynamic framework that shapes individual and collective responses to crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume combines philosophical depth with thoughtful social critique, offering African-centred perspectives on justice, resilience and social cohesion in a rapidly changing world.

This book will be of value especially to scholars, but also to postgraduate students and research-practitioners seeking rigorous, contextually grounded approaches to equity, healing and institutional transformation.

Chapters

Foreword
The multidisciplinary and moral character of Ubuntu

Peace Kiguwa
Chapter 1
Weaving Ubuntu: A multidisciplinary perspective on its real-world evolution and application

Roshini Pillay, Simangele Mayisela, Mzikazi Nduna
Chapter 2
Ubuntu philosophy: A key to the achievement of primary health care re-engineering

Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi, Rafiat Ajoke Anokwuru
Chapter 3
Innovating hearing health care in South Africa: Teleaudiology and Ubuntu bridging the gap

Liepollo Ntlhakana, Mapula Jaqueline Mokwena
Chapter 4
The importance of inculcating Ubuntu in nursing education

Takalani Rhoda Luhalima, Shonisani Agnes Mulovhedzi
Chapter 5
Rethinking African mourning rituals in the age of digital revolution

Beatha Set, Rachel Shanyanana-Amaambo, Moses Chirimbana
Chapter 6
The essence of proverbs in restoring an Ubuntu state of mind through counselling and psychotherapy

Phumuzani Mpofu, Simangele Mayisela
Chapter 7
Sistering Mentoring: Merging Ubuntu and feminist solidarity through mentorship

Nokhetho Mhlanga, Danille Elize Arendse
Chapter 8
‘We don’t want empowerment, we want empowered men’: Gender discourse from African epistemology

Nompumelelo Zodwa Radebe
Chapter 9
The influence of Ubuntu during teaching and learning in early childhood development centres

Shonisani Agnes Mulovhedzi, Takalani Rhoda Luhalima
Chapter 10
Structural shackles of Ubuntu? A discourse analysis of university students’ goal motives

Itumeleng Khumalo, Nditsheni Mulaudzi, Peninah Kigunda
Chapter 11
Educating for sustainable development and climate action

Overson Shumba, Yovita Gwekwerere, Ruth Mulenga
Chapter 12
Ubuntu in today’s world: Theory in the making

Simangele Mayisela, Roshini Pillay, Mzikazi Nduna

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978-1-997449-11-9