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Ubuntu and the Nine Wars of Dispossession: An Ethical Framework for Indigenous Southern Africans

This study delves into how indigenous southern african communities embraced ubuntu as a guiding ethical framework during the nine wars of dispossession. It highlights the intricate relationship between the adoption of military technology and the indigenous ethics that shaped their responses to conquest and conflict. Discover how these principles influenced resilience and community solidarity in times of upheaval.

Chaired by Dr. Christine Vogt William

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PROF. PANASHE CHIGUMADZI (Brandeis University, Boston, USA)

An award-winning writer, scholar, and historian specializing in African and diasporic intellectual traditions. She holds a PhD from Harvard University’s Department of African and African American Studies and an MA in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work traverses literature, religion, art, and feminist theory, reflecting deep engagement with the politics of memory and liberation.

A founding editor of Vanguard Magazine, a publication for Black women in post-apartheid South Africa, she is also a contributor to Afro-feminist anthologies such as New Daughters of Africa and Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. Her essays on decolonial theology and Black thought have appeared in leading journals and art catalogues
across the globe.