Abstract
This article explores possible experiences of ubuntu in the Zama Zama informal settlement. Postfoundational practical theology and the narrative approach function as paradigm and methodology. Themes and/or discourses like poverty, violence, xenophobia and the role of the local church were identified, but ubuntu is not always visible as a lived reality amongst the members of the community. The church is an exception. Women play a leading role in the congregation and it is in the church where ubuntu values are visible and experienced.
Highlights
The Second Cluster of the Ubuntu Project of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship of the University of Pretoria explores personal and community narratives in order to examine whether the concept of ubuntu is primal in the shaping of identities, and to understand how it interacts with faith traditions
Most of the people living in Zama Zama are migrants from African countries
Out of the conversations I had with these women, the discourses that challenged the actualisation of ubuntu in Zama Zama were violence, poverty and xenophobia
Summary
The Second Cluster of the Ubuntu Project of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship of the University of Pretoria explores personal and community narratives in order to examine whether the concept of ubuntu is primal in the shaping of identities, and to understand how it interacts with faith traditions. People living in this informal settlement exist in difficult and poor circumstances and this research project hopes to voice the experiences and concerns of the women living in Zama Zama and examines how their personal narratives of their faith could be used to understand the extent to which ubuntu philosophy underpins their spirituality. Human (2003:41) views narrative research as a form of practical wisdom that values the stories of people and communities, instead of working with hypotheses of what should or might be.
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