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Ubuntu Beyond Identities - Isintu as a Performative Turn of Ubuntu (Paperback)
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Ubuntu Beyond Identities - Isintu as a Performative Turn of Ubuntu (Paperback)
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Let us rewrite our history; A history that speaks of Africa as
experienced by Africans. Let us rewrite our history that speaks of
ubuntu traditions, isintu practices and umuntu/abantu as central
pillars of society. Let us rewrite a narrative that speaks isintu
sethu - setso sa rona, isintu - setso sa rona as a 'Set of Rules'
for all practices in society. Twenty-five years after the delivery
of political democracy, the Edenic projects of nonracialism and the
Rainbow Nation have failed because there was no fuller appreciation
of what is meant by ubuntu. Ubuntu consists of three integral
parts: first, amasiko, which consists of traditions, norms and
customs; isintu: rituals, performances and practices that help with
the embodiment of ubuntu; and umuntu, the performer and
practitioner of isintu and bearer of the ubuntu value system as a
state of being and identity. The version of ubuntu that was used
and applied immediately after 1994 for engendering nationbuilding
should have initially been focused on rebuilding the Black social
groups before there were attempts at rebuilding all races, through
the defunct Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and forging
social cohesion through short-term sporting codes such as the 1995
Rugby World Cup, the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 Fifa
World Cup. Such an understanding of ubuntu, exemplified above, came
across as sanitised and a quick fix that could not undo centuries
of dehumanisation, as characterised by apartheid. By definition and
practice, that is anathema to ubuntu since it depreciated the value
systems and performances of isintu of the majority population and
defiled the humanity of both the Black people and their white
counterparts. Isintu ought to be regarded as a tool of inculcation
of rules, norms and traditions that structure limits and help with
the embodiment of ubuntu. This book regards it as well suited for
solving the impasse currently witnessed in South Africa. It is only
with the inclusion of the analysis and discussion of isintu that
ubuntu may be understood and reveal its performative prowess in the
production of identities and a variety of capitals meant to sustain
the societies of sub-Saharan Africa. Needless to say, some aspects
of ubuntu may well be suitable for export as representative of
humanism or critical humanism. However, the system of ubuntu needs
to be properly rationalised before it can be chopped down and
paraded as a universal tool. The tendency of parading ubuntu as a
universal tool of humanism has tended to weaken it along with
individuals whose bodies and geographies are a locus for
cultivation identities and diverse forms of capital that help enact
and sustain local value systems. This book presents the true
meaning of ubuntu, which has its roots in communitarian societies
and their value systems. As part of an international benchmark on
the viability of local value systems as a conceptual framework for
performances of production aimed at a fulfilled citizenry, the book
compares ubuntu to its counterpart value systems of Confucianism in
China and Jantelagen in Sweden.
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