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how ubuntu could help fight social challenges

Answer 1

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Introduction

Is the African social value of ubuntu dead? Does it offer any hope for transforming South African society or fostering social cohesion? Is it able to play a meaningful role in the building of a post-Apartheid South African society that embodies reconciliation and is based on principles of justice and equality? Whether ubuntu could (or should) play such a role has been debated. Within the broad spectrum of positions, there are two generally opposing viewpoints amongst academics:

there are those who argue that, as a foundational principle in African philosophy, ubuntu offers significant possibilities for the transformation of South African society

on the other side, there are those who argue that ubuntu is vague, full of contradictions, and subject to manipulative and even nefarious use.

This article will outline both of those positions, and based on an investigation of people's understandings of ubuntu in a specific context, argue that the notion of ubuntu appears to have been eroded to the extent that it currently seems unable to play a meaningful role in nation-building.

Where does this leave ubuntu? I will borrow the concept of liminality from anthropology and argue that, as a society that has undergone discontinuous change, South Africa is in a liminal space, as is the notion of ubuntu. Within this space there is both threat and possibility. There is the threat that the erosion of positive social values will continue and that our already fragmented society will tear itself apart. There is also the possibility that we can creatively recover both the meaning and force of ubuntu, and find significant ways to embody it in our society.

Answer 2

Ubuntu can help in fighting with the social challenges since it is a South African concept that focuses in charity, sympathy, and compassion.

It spreads the knowledge on these values among the people and hence the social challenges like terrorism can be highly eradicated.  

The Ubuntu concepts are yet to be wide spread across the country so that the people will get awareness to get to know of its values and they can spread those values.

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