Abstract
As an organisational anthropologist I was very enthusiastic about the philosophy of the ubuntuconcept when I heard and read about it a couple of years ago. It gave words and meaning to manyof my experiences during long stays in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. The concept has astrong metaphoric power for African-based organisational and management theories, as opposedto Eurocentric and Americacentric ones: ‘We Africans will develop our own theories, based on ourtypical African authenticity and you, westerners can learn from us’. Instead of thinking in dichotomies,as we so typically do, it is possible and more fruitful to stress togetherness and the RainbowNation: instead of ‘or – or’ ‘and – and’; taking the African Renaissance as a starting point.
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