Welcome to The uBuntu Project
The uBuntu Project Logo - Serena Cornell, Painter
Some would say that South Africa has one the most ethically demanding and jurisprudentially sophisticated constitutions in the world today. Indigineous values were removed as a juridical ideal as the 1994 interim constitution was replaced with the adoption of the 1996 constitution. We were left with an instance of western, European values— despite being the brightest of such values— taking center stage and casting a colonial shadow on indigenous alternatives.
The uBuntu Project is working to better understand the role of indigenous values and racial justice in the ongoing development of the new South Africa. Since 2003, the project has been working with a variety of people ranging from local township groups to the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Together, a great many people have made this project a reality by building radical ethnographies, critical jurisprudence, and creative aesthetics to understand, respect, and celebrate uBuntu.
Our site is currently under development and will be redesigned in the coming weeks around the new logo (pictured above), but you can learn more about uBuntu and the background and goals of The uBuntu Project. You are also welcome to contact us for more information.