Towards a different understanding of African education: reconstituting the place of ubuntu

In this chapter I examine a communitarian understanding of ubuntu (humanness) and its implications for education on the African continent. I show how communitarian understandings of ubuntu (humanness) resonate with dignified humane action, evoking the potentialities of people, and cultivating a ‘community of shared fate’ – all practices that can contribute to a notion of what ought to constitute African education.