Ubuntu and Youth Studies in Africa
Series: Routledge Studies in African Philosophy;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 18 June 2026
- ISBN 9781041023784
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages218 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 Illustrations, black & white; 3 Halftones, black & white; 4 Tables, black & white 700
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Short description:
This book considers how the African philosophy of Ubuntu can contribute to the study of the youth in Africa. Reports from the UN indicate that by 2050, more than a third of young people globally will be in or from Africa. It will be important for researchers across the fields of philosophy, youth studies, sociology, and African studies.
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This book considers how the African philosophy of Ubuntu can contribute to the study of the youth in Africa.
Reports from the United Nations indicate that by 2050, more than a third of young people in the world will be in or from Africa. However, most existing youth studies remain framed by Global North paradigms, creating a risk of generalising or globally universalizing the stage of life between childhood and adulthood. This book challenges this imbalance by proposing an approach to youth studies that is grounded in Ubuntu, the philosophy that a person is a person through other persons. The book proposes an Ubuntu conception of youth as becoming: a relational and self-realizing approach to the stage of transition from childhood to morally fit personhood or adulthood. Moreover, the book seeks to imagine and engage issues affecting young people in Africa, covering topics ranging from education, development, migration, work, crime, politics, leadership, gangs, wars, technology, entrepreneurship, among many others.
This incisive and expansive African perspective on youth studies expands our metaphysical, epistemological, and axiological understanding of the field. It will be an important read for researchers across the fields of philosophy, youth studies, sociology, and African studies.
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1: Introduction to Ubuntu and Youth in African Studies 2: An Ubuntu Conception of Youth as Becoming 3: Bildung and Ubuntu in Youth Development: Cultivating Relational Understanding Across Cultures 4: Youth Instrumentalism, deficit of Agency and Ubuntu in Africa 5: Terrorism And Youth Vulnerability in Nigeria: The Imperative of Ubuntu Philosophy 6: New Youth Movements and the Rebirth of Ubuntu, Ujaama and Asuwada in Africa 7: Ubuntu and Asuwada Initiatives in Africa: Youth Crisis and Hopeful Antidotes 8: Social Order as Role Definition, Ubuntu as Interconnectedness and the Social Identity of the Youth as Nature or Nurture 9: Ubuntu, Youth Employment, Capabilities and Vulnerabilities in the Dominant Liberal Socio-Political Order 10: Young graduates embracing an ubuntu ethic through giving back and leadership
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