Ubuntu Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/ubuntu/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:11:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ubuntu Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/ubuntu/ 32 32 67616479 The Accident of Meritocracy: Why the Western Operating System Has Crashed—and the African Software Needed to Reboot Humanity https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-accident-of-meritocracy/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-accident-of-meritocracy/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:11:04 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573896 The hyper-individualist, extractive capitalist system is crashing before our eyes. As the old world fractures, true renewal lies not in elite-driven "Great Resets," but in rebooting humanity with Ubuntu's ancient African wisdom of interconnectedness and shared humanity.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-accident-of-meritocracy/feed/ 0 573896 Long Read | African Liberation Day: The people are our mountains https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/africa-liberation-day-the-people-are-our-mountains/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/africa-liberation-day-the-people-are-our-mountains/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 25 May 2022 10:33:48 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=70572 In this article, Sungu Oyoo relates happenings in his village of Kajulu (Kenya) to the Pan-African crisis by exploring how the Neo-colonial state reproduces itself, then creates myths to cover its tracks. For just as the colonial enterprise was anchored in myths of ‘civilizing missions’ - the neo-colonial state is today even more adept at creating and propagating myths and designs that cloud our eyes, obscure our visions and act as roadblocks to the African Revolution.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/africa-liberation-day-the-people-are-our-mountains/feed/ 0 70572 A Kenyan school founded on Ubuntu and Afrocentrism https://thisisafrica.me/african-identities/a-kenyan-school-founded-on-ubuntu-and-afrocentrism/ https://thisisafrica.me/african-identities/a-kenyan-school-founded-on-ubuntu-and-afrocentrism/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 25 May 2022 08:53:58 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=70564 The Children in Freedom School in Kenya has an Afrocentric approach to education that recognises the greatness inherent in every African child, nurturing it from an early age, and preparing them to design solutions that will change their local communities and the world.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/african-identities/a-kenyan-school-founded-on-ubuntu-and-afrocentrism/feed/ 0 70564 Conversation with Brian Kagoro on Africa: “We must take charge of our own destiny” https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/conversation-with-brian-kagoro-on-africa-we-must-take-charge-of-our-own-destiny/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/conversation-with-brian-kagoro-on-africa-we-must-take-charge-of-our-own-destiny/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 25 May 2021 12:14:48 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me//?p=68825 Brian Kagoro offers reflections on why Africans must take charge of their own destiny and realize that “no one owes Africa a meal or a living”.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/conversation-with-brian-kagoro-on-africa-we-must-take-charge-of-our-own-destiny/feed/ 0 68825 George the Poet declines Member of the Order of the British Empire title https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/george-the-poet-declines-member-of-the-order-of-the-british-empire-title/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/george-the-poet-declines-member-of-the-order-of-the-british-empire-title/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:19:40 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me//?p=65783 Spoken word artist and award-winning podcaster, George the Poet has declined to become a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) based on the "colonial trauma inflicted on the children of Africa".

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