Ujamaa: Julius Nyerere on the Meaning of Human Existence

Gbadegesin, Olusegun

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“…Originally, equality makes all people voluntarily share rights and duties of the society as a requirement of social life (Gbadegesin 2020:51;cf Nyerere 1966:8). Furthermore, Gbadegesin (2020) argued that equality does not deny the fact that an age difference and hierarchical ordering exist. Rather, it underscores the fact that within the same age grade, the equality of the members is the working basis for dealing with them.…”

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African Neo-Pentecostal capitalism through the lens of Ujamaa

Orogun

Pillay

2021

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

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This article engaged in critical analyses of the capitalistic nature of the practices of African Neo-Pentecostal leaders with a focus on a few but most popular Nigerian and South African Neo-Pentecostal leaders. Using Julius Nyerere’s African moral philosophy called Ujamaa, the article viewed and critiqued the narratives with an emphasis on how antithetical such practices are to the communitarian nature of African society which provides for people-centred servant leadership. Progressively, the article discovered that such capitalistic practices promote manipulative, exploitative and inhuman culture and therefore engenders gross socio-moral and socio-economic abuse of the rights and privileges of millions of Church adherents. It further deduced that amongst others, lack of love towards the adherents and surrounding communities is at the heart of such bankrupt practices and therefore recommended the three principles and three factors of Ujamaa’s philosophy as essential values needed for the transformation of the Neo-Pentecostal religious organisations or nations. It is the conclusive remark of this article that every leader needs to adopt Ujamaa’s philosophy as a basic leadership requirement for communitarian and people-centred service to humanity.Contribution: Aligning with HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies focus and scope, this article contributed to an interdisciplinary religious aspect of research as it brought forward the interplay of African Moral Philosophy and African Pentecostal Theology aimed at discovering pathways to improve the African Christian leaders’ socio-moral and socio-economic services to adherents and African communities at large.

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African Neo-Pentecostal capitalism through the lens of Ujamaa

Orogun

Pillay

2021

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

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Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique

de Carvalho

2023

Anthropology Southern Africa

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African Environmental Ethics Against Anthropocentric Western Environmental Ethics: A Postcolonial Criticism

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ŞAHİN

2023

Anemon Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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Dünyada çevre sorunları hızla artarken, bu sorunlardan sadece gelişmiş Batılı devletler değil, Afrika gibi sömürgeciliğe maruz kalmış coğrafyalar da nasibini almıştır. Dünyayı böylesine geniş ölçüde etkileyen çevre sorunları, özünde insan ile doğa arasındaki ilişkinin nasıl olması gerektiği üzerine eğilen çevre etiğinin başlıca ilgi alanı olmuştur. Söz konusu çevre etiği ise dünyanın farklı bölgelerinden çok sayıda görüş ve yaklaşımı içerir. Bu çalışmanın amacı; Afrika çevre etiğinin insan merkezci Batılı çevre etiği yaklaşımından farkını ortaya koymaktır. Bunun için öncelikle Batılı çevre etiğinin ve daha geniş bağlamda Afrika çevre etiğinin muhtevasına, daha sonrasında ise Afrika’dan Batıya ve insan merkezci Batılı çevre etiğine yönelik eleştirilere yer verilecektir. Söz konusu eleştiriler ise bunları daha uygun ifade etme olanağı sunan postkolonyal eleştiri çerçevesinde sunulacaktır. Çalışma sonucunda; kendi içerisinde daha yerel ve toplulukçu şekillerde bir çeşitlilik ve zenginlik barındırsa da belli ortak özelliklere dayanan Afrika çevre etiğinin, Batıda egemen olan insan merkezci çevre etiğinden farklı olduğu görülmüş ve ayrıca gelecek çalışmalar için önerilerde de bulunulmuştur.

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Ujamaa: Julius Nyerere on the Meaning of Human Existence

Cited by 3 publications

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African Neo-Pentecostal capitalism through the lens of Ujamaa

African Neo-Pentecostal capitalism through the lens of Ujamaa

Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique

African Environmental Ethics Against Anthropocentric Western Environmental Ethics: A Postcolonial Criticism

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