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Posted in News on Jul 16, 2024.
In an interview with Business Partners magazine, posted on the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce website, Professor James Ogude, Director of the Southern African Hub of the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition at the University of Pretoria, reflects on how the current global business landscape can be reshaped through applying the values of the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu, ‘that emphasizes our interdependence not simply as human beings, but in relation to the totality of our environment.’
“We must begin experiencing ourselves as being part of nature, rather than as an outside force destined to dominate it”
Professor Ogude notes: “Ubuntu may entail a radically revised idea of corporate responsibility that goes beyond philanthropic gestures and emphasizes working with communities to build eco-friendly values and projects that are not just human-centered, but rest on ethics of care.”
Ubuntu offers “the corporate world community and the rest of us new ways of re-imagining the future by pointing to our shared responsibility in ensuring that we protect the environment for our own good as the human community.”
Read the full interview here: Ubuntu: Accessing Knowledge from the Past to Protect Our Future – American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce