Mogobe Ramose: The Speaking Human Being (homo Loquens) Precedes the Writing Human Being (homo scriptans): An Ubu-ntu Perspective on Dialogue Among World Philosophies

Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages

Abstract: Philosophy, as a human inclination, is as old as human beings on Mother Earth. It is thus pluriversal. As an academic discipline, it remains a contested terrain, especially since colonization by the West and the economic fundamentalism known as globalization. The ubuntu perspective adopted here will take cognizance of the rivers of Africa as a source of philosophy (fluvial philosophy). I propose to examine this human condition critically, taking the philosophy of ubuntu as my point of departure.

Mogobe Bernard Ramose is a South African-born philosopher known for his foundational role in the internationalization of African philosophy, particularly Ubuntu. He is Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa and Research Professor at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University. Ramose earned his PhD in Philosophy from KU Leuven and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. A political exile during apartheid, he held academic positions across Africa and Europe.

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