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In my previous work, the book African philosophy of education reconsidered: On being human (Waghid, 2014), ubuntu is etymologically explicated as a concept that has both an individual and a communal orientation—individual, in the sense that people act with their individualities (attitudes, beliefs, understandings and ways of seeing the world) and therefore have something to say or contribute, and communal, in the sense that their association with other individuals in a collective is important when acting or doing things.
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Waghid, Y. (2017). Ubuntu. In: Cross, M., Ndofirepi, A. (eds) Knowledge and Change in African Universities. African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-842-6_3
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