Abstract: There has not been a comprehensive definition of Ubuntu until recently. Ubuntu was previously simply defined as ubuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, meaning a person becomes human because of other people. However, this definition refers to just one aspect of Ubuntu, relationality. A most recent definition of Ubuntu says it ‘is the worldview of Black people of Africa from where they derive relational, communal, societal, environmental and spiritual knowledges, values and...

Abstract: There is no comprehensive history of Africa’s philosophy for reasons including colonisation and neo-colonisation that resulted in its philosophy’ neglect and under-studying compared to Eastern, Middle-Eastern and Western philosophies. In this article, the timeline of Africa’s philosophy has been divided into five stages – sankofa, tu, shosholoza, Ubuntu and umoja.  Sankofa is a stage where less is known, although, by looking at the history of the different groups of...