Ubuntu And Women Building Community In Urban Areas

Author : Musa Wenkosi Dube,Senzokuhle D. Setume,Tirelo Modie-Moroka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Community development
ISBN : 1991201982

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Ubuntu and Women by Musa Wenkosi Dube,Senzokuhle D. Setume,Tirelo Modie-Moroka Pdf

The book takes us to women-centred events in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. Data was collected from the conversations and events women hold with and for one another on the occasions of bridal, Naomi/Laban, and baby showers. Defining Ubuntu/Botho as the belief that our humanity is only measured by our capacity to welcome, respect and empower the other, this research-based book analyses how women practise Ubuntu/Botho in the urban spaces where the community easily disintegrates to individualism, isolation and poverty. It seeks to explore how Ubuntu/Botho intersects with gender and navigates its space around patriarchy, marriage, motherhood, family and community. It explores rituals and connections between women of different generations such as mothers and daughters, daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law, children and mothers, and their struggles to uphold Ubuntu/Botho in their families, communities and workspaces in the face of patriarchy, urbanisation, capitalism and neo-liberalism. The book employs and generates a multitude of methods and theories to highlight women mothering and delivering Ubuntu/Botho in the urban space communities.

Author : Musa W. Dube,Rosinah M. Gabaitse,Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe,Malebogo Kgalemang, Tshenolo J. Madigele,Tirelo Modie-Moroka,Pulane E. Motswapong,Senzokuhle D. Setume
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781991201997

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Ubuntu and Women: Building Community in Urban Areas by Musa W. Dube,Rosinah M. Gabaitse,Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe,Malebogo Kgalemang, Tshenolo J. Madigele,Tirelo Modie-Moroka,Pulane E. Motswapong,Senzokuhle D. Setume Pdf

The book takes us to women-centred events in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. Data was collected from the conversations and events women hold with and for one another on the occasions of bridal, Naomi/Laban, and baby showers. Defining Ubuntu/Botho as the belief that our humanity is only measured by our capacity to welcome, respect and empower the other, this research-based book analyses how women practise Ubuntu/Botho in the urban spaces where the community easily disintegrates to individualism, isolation and poverty. It seeks to explore how Ubuntu/Botho intersects with gender and navigates its space around patriarchy, marriage, motherhood, family and community. It explores rituals and connections between women of different generations such as mothers and daughters, daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law, children and mothers, and their struggles to uphold Ubuntu/Botho in their families, communities and workspaces in the face of patriarchy, urbanisation, capitalism and neo-liberalism. The book employs and generates a multitude of methods and theories to highlight women mothering and delivering Ubuntu/Botho in the urban space communities.

Author : Musa W. Dube,Telesia K. Musili,Sylvia Owusu-Ansah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781003856009

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Gender, African Philosophies, and Concepts by Musa W. Dube,Telesia K. Musili,Sylvia Owusu-Ansah Pdf

This volume sets out to explore, propose, and generate feminist theories based on African indigenous philosophies and concepts. It investigates specific philosophical and ethical concepts that emerge from African indigenous religions and considers their potential for providing feminist imagination for social justice-oriented earth communities. The contributions examine African indigenous concepts such as Ubuntu, ancestorhood, trickster discourse, Mupo, Akwaaba, Tukumbeng, Eziko, storytelling, and Ngozi . They look to deconstruct oppressive social categories of gender, class, ethnicity, race, colonialism, heteronormativity, and anthropocentricism. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, philosophy, gender studies, and African studies.

Author : Susan L. Maros,Vince L. Bantu,Kirsteen Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666786002

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Power, Agency, and Women in the Mission of God by Susan L. Maros,Vince L. Bantu,Kirsteen Kim Pdf

This volume fulfills the need for an accessible academic book that addresses the gender issues that women face as Christian disciples, whether in formal leadership roles or engaging leadership in informal means, and considers these issues in the context of world Christianity. In an era in which mission is “from everywhere, to everywhere,” when local churches strive to be missional, and when Christians are engaged in intercultural ministry, this book invites a scholar-practitioner conversation, engaging multiple disciplines and perspectives to explore the role of women in the mission of God. An interdisciplinary and intercultural conversation about women will enrich the church’s ongoing effort to be faithful to God’s call to women (and men) to participate in God’s work in the world.

Author : Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031485091

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Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers by Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga Pdf

Author : Priscilla Mtungwa Ndlovu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137526854

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Discovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership by Priscilla Mtungwa Ndlovu Pdf

Discovering the Spirit of Ubuntu Leadership introduces a new leadership model which takes into account the history, culture and economic environment of African women leaders to understand, discover, observe and share their personal leadership experiences.

Author : Caroline Shenaz Hossein,Christabell P.J.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198865629

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Community Economies in the Global South by Caroline Shenaz Hossein,Christabell P.J. Pdf

People across the globe engage in social and solidarity economics to help themselves, their community, and society on their own terms. Community Economies in the Global South examines how people who conscientiously organize rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) bring positive changes to their own lives as well as others. ROSCAs are a long-established and well documented practice, especially those organized by women of colour. Members make regular deposits to a fund as a savings that is then given in whole or in part to each member in turn based on group economics. This book spotlights women in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia who organize and use these associations, composed of ordinary people belonging to similar class origins who decide jointly on the rules to suit the interests of their members. The case studies show how they vary greatly across countries in the Global South, demonstrating that ROSCAs are living proof that diverse community economies do exist and have been around for a very long time. The contributors recount stories of the self-help, activism, and perseverance of racialized people in order to push for ethical, community-focused business, and to hold onto local knowledge, grounded theory, and lived experience, reducing the need to rely on external funding as people find ways to finance sustainable, debt-free business ventures. The first collection on this topic edited by two women of colour with roots in the Global South, this volume is a rallying call to other scholar-activists to study and report on how racialized people come together, pool goods, and diversify business in the Global South.

Author : Keengwe, Jared,Nyatuka, Benard O.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668491003

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Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development by Keengwe, Jared,Nyatuka, Benard O. Pdf

Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development, led by experienced editor Jared Keengwe, is a must-read for academic scholars concerned about the impact of climate change and want to foster sustainable development. The book highlights the importance of climate change education in equipping individuals with the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes needed to confront the impact of climate change. It also identifies the challenges in realizing the anticipated objectives, including limited understanding of the weather change phenomenon, less effective pedagogical approaches, and weak partnerships among critical stakeholders. The book covers various topics such as teaching principles, pedagogical perspectives, theoretical foundations and alignment, professional orientation, pedagogical strategies, learner support, contextual issues, and reflective practice considerations. It is intended for climate change analysts, policy makers, curriculum designers, faculty, educators, and other stakeholders interested in averting the impact of climate change and fostering sustainable development. With its comprehensive coverage and the editor's expertise, Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development is the perfect resource for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of climate change education and its role in sustainable development.

Author : Richie Moalosi,Yaone Rapitsenyane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781000955347

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African Industrial Design Practice by Richie Moalosi,Yaone Rapitsenyane Pdf

The underlying principle of this book is the African philosophy of Ubuntu, which acts as a guide for developing empathic products and services. The book makes the case that empathy is the key to any successful product and service design project because it enables designers to make wise design choices that align with users' demands. Fifteen chapters provide the latest industrial design developments, techniques, and processes explicitly targeting emerging economies. At the outset, it covers the design context and the philosophy of the Ubuntu approach, which places people and communities at the centre of the development agenda. The book covers new product development, design research, design cognition, digital and traditional prototyping, bringing products to the market, establishing a company's brand name, intellectual property rights, traditional knowledge, and the business case for design in Afrika. It concludes with a discussion about the future of design and the skills aspiring designers will need. African Industrial Design Practice: Perspectives on Ubuntu Philosophy will be an essential textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, instructors, and beginner designers in emerging economies to provide regionally contextualised design processes, illustrated examples, and outcomes. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Uchenna D. Anyanwu
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666798340

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Pathways to Peacebuilding by Uchenna D. Anyanwu Pdf

Given the consistent challenge of Islamist acute violence, particularly in Nigeria, this monograph attempts to respond to the question: How can Jesus's followers pattern response to violence after Jesus's model demonstrated in his triumph over death, evil, sin, and violence through staurocentric pathways? And how can Jesus's followers in Nigeria adopt the same staurocentric model in order to not only overcome acute violence within the country but also to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric forgiveness, hospitality, and other practices toward Muslims? In this study, I posit that peacebuilding contextual theology be grounded on the mystery of the cross (σταυρός-stauros)--a theologico-theoretical framework that the church in Nigeria should espouse in order to position herself to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric practices, whose appropriation must be undertaken through constructive and critical integration of the God-given African peacebuilding concepts autochthonous to Africa's mosaic cultural contexts. The pivotal thesis is that the staurocentric model remains the triune God's instrument for triumphing over violence, and thus should be espoused by Jesus's followers in every era and context for peacebuilding in contexts of violence through a triadic constructive and critical integration of indigenous peacebuilding concepts.

Author : Anselm Adodo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351794916

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Integral Community Enterprise in Africa by Anselm Adodo Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- About the author -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Introduction to the integral journey -- 1 Overview of my research trajectory -- Part II Origination of research: research method -- 2 My subjective inner call: the emotive researcher -- 3 My objective outer challenge: how I expressed my inner desire in confronting concrete challenges in my society -- Part III Context: phenomenology -- 4 Uncovering imbalances in my context: a description of Ewu Community, Paxherbal and St Benedict Monastery -- 5 Unravelling missing depths: my contextual transformational topography -- Part IV Co-creation -- 6 Emancipatory critique: introduction to feminism in an African context -- 7 Towards a true Pax Africana: communitalism as an approach to health, community and enterprise in Ewu, Edo State, Nigeria -- Part V Contribution and transformation -- 8 Participatory action research in an African context: the case of Ewu village, Edo State, Nigeria -- 9 Cooperative inquiry in an African context: the case of Paxherbal and ACIRD -- Part VI Distillation and conclusion of the integral journey -- 10 CARE-ing for Nigeria: towards an integral university in Africa -- Index.

Author : L. Juliana Claassens,Christl M. Maier,Funlola O. Olojede
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696281

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Transgression and Transformation by L. Juliana Claassens,Christl M. Maier,Funlola O. Olojede Pdf

This volume on feminist, postcolonial and queer biblical interpretation gathers perspectives from a global body of researchers; in offering innovative interpretations of key texts from the Hebrew Bible, both established and emerging biblical scholars consider the question of how commonplace interpretative practices may be considered to be transgressive in nature. Utilizing innovative strategies, they read against the grain of the text and in support of the marginalized, the subordinated or subaltern others both in the text and in our world today. Important questions regarding power and privilege are constantly raised: whose voices are being heard, and whose interests are being served? Knowing all too well the harm that stereotypical constructions of the Other can do in terms of feeding racism, sexism, homophobia and imperialism in their respective interpretative communities, the essays in this volume interrogate constructions of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class, both in the text as well as in their respective contexts. By means of these thought-provoking interpretations, the contributors show their commitment not merely the sake of scholarship but to a scholarly ethos, which in some shape or form contributes to the cultivation of more just, equitable societies.

Author : Kenneth Maes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781315400778

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The Lives of Community Health Workers by Kenneth Maes Pdf

Conclusion: Listening to Community Health Workers: Recommendations for Action and Research -- Recruit Strong CHWs and Provide Supportive Supervision -- Emphasize the Humanity of Patients, Quality of Life, and Empathic Care -- Build Solid Relationships across Social Dividing Lines -- Finance the Creation of Secure CHW Jobs -- Strengthen CHW Participation in Processes of Social Change -- Conduct Better Research and More of It -- United, Spider Webs Can Tie Up a Lion -- References -- Index.

Author : Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781928331780

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African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model by Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri Pdf

The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures. Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi’s markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics and planning in African cities.

Author : Yusef Waghid,Judith Terblanche,Lester Brian Shawa,Joseph Pardon Hungwe,Faiq Waghid,Zayd Waghid
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031064548

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Towards an Ubuntu University by Yusef Waghid,Judith Terblanche,Lester Brian Shawa,Joseph Pardon Hungwe,Faiq Waghid,Zayd Waghid Pdf

This book explores the argument to reconsider the idea of a university in light of the African ethic of ubuntu; literally, human dignity and interdependence. The book discusses, through the context of higher education discourse of philosophy and comparative education, how global universities have evolved into higher educational institutions concerned with knowledge (re)production for various end purposes that range from individual autonomy, to public accountability, to serving the interests of the economy and markets. The question can legitimately be asked: Is an ubuntu university different from an entrepreneurial university, thinking university, and ecological university? While these different understandings of a university accentuate both the epistemological and moral imperatives in relation to itself and the societies in which they manifest, it is through the ubuntu university that emotivism in the forms of dignity and humaneness will enhance a university’s capacity for autonomy, responsibility, and criticality. This book would be of academic interest to university educators and students in philosophy of education, comparative education, and cultural studies.