Ubuntu and Youth Studies in Africa

Motsamai Molefe is an Associate Professor, University of South Africa, Graduate School of Business Leadership, South Africa, specialising in African philosophy, Ethics, and Governance. He serves as the Chair of Department: Intra-Africa Trade and Responsible Leadership.Paul Michael is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Higher Education and Human Development (HEHD) Research Group, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He specialises in youth studies and their intersection with migration, education, cultural and decolonial studies from an African philosophical perspective.

• 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