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Decolonising African educational philosophy: Nkrumah’s Ubuntu ontology-epistemology against Cartesian individualism for African cultural identity

This article examines educational decolonisation by contrasting Kwame Nkrumah's Ubuntu-centred communal ontology with René Descartes' individualistic Cogito ergo sum.

Windhoek ObserverBy Jeronimo Kateya9 Sept 2026, 03:55 am
Decolonising African educational philosophy: Nkrumah’s Ubuntu ontology-epistemology against Cartesian individualism for African cultural identity

This article examines educational decolonisation by contrasting Kwame Nkrumah’s Ubuntu-centred communal ontology with René Descartes’ individualistic Cogito ergo sum.

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