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'Among other accomplishments in this history of political thought in South Africa, Michael Eze succeeds in transcending two major approaches often taken to ubuntu, the sub-Saharan conception of morality prominent in South African socio-political discourse. One approach is that since ubuntu was an ideal way of life in pre-colonial times, it is worth reproducing today, while the other is that since ubuntu is merely a recent construction by political elites, it has no authority to guide policy. In contrast to both, Eze convincingly argues that ubuntu was part of traditional African culture prior to colonialism, but was far from ideal, and hence is something that today's South Africans should refashion collectively. Eze's 'creative historiographical' approach to ubuntu should guide all future thinking about the topic.'
-Thaddeus Metz, Humanities Research Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
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Book Title: Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa
Authors: Michael Onyebuchi Eze
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109698
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62299-9Published: 18 August 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10969-8Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 220
Topics: Asian History, African History, Anthropology, African Literature, African Languages, History of Sub-Saharan Africa