{"product_id":"ujamaa-and-ubuntu-9781032641515","title":"Ujamaa and Ubuntu","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words, such as enlightenment, reason, rationality, modernization, and the most recent by-word, globalization. However, it is a language that has been accompanied by colonialism, imperialism, racism, the exploitation of people and nature, an unequal distribution of the world's resources, pogroms, genocides, and world wars. There has been a gap between assumptions underlying a visionary ambition and the often-brutal practices that have accompanied it. Moreover, it is a language that expresses European values, with the implicit or explicit suggestion that they pertain to the whole world, a civilizing mission from a European centre. Although the established narrative argued that there was continuous progress, it was a conclusion reached through hindsight. The idea of progress had to be repeatedly recreated through new vis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction 2. \u003cem\u003eUjamaa\u003c\/em\u003e: evasive and elusive African socialism 3. The translation of the unwritten: \u003cem\u003eubuntu\u003c\/em\u003e as religion, as law and as politics 4. Epilogue: can we learn from \u003cem\u003eujamaa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eubuntu\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019149115735,"sku":"9781032641515","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032641515.jpg?v=1750779464","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ujamaa-and-ubuntu-9781032641515","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}