The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development

The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and resolution. It highlights inequalities that relate to gender, climate change, the environment, race, migration, and the struggle against poverty. It reflects on how and the extent to which Ubuntu can be a strategic resource in pursuit of equality and justice.

Ezra Chitando is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe and extraordinary professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Beatrice Okyere-Manu is an associate professor at the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. An author of numerous articles and chapters combining community engagement with scholarly research. Her edited and co-edited works include Intersecting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (2018), African Values, Ethics, and Technology (2021), and, Development Ethics: An African Perspective (2023).

Sophia Chirongoma is currently an independent researcher. She was a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. She is an active member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Her research interests and publications focus on the interface between culture, ecology, religion, health, development, and gender justice.

Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Prof of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) and a biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Her research interests include biblical and African literature, religion, gender, postcolonial, translation, HIV&AIDS, Botho/Ubuntu and Earth studies. She is the author and (co-)editor of numerous books. She is the current continental Coordinator of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (2019-2024); former president of the Society Biblical Literature (2023) and Professor Extraordinaire in the Institute of Gender UNISA.