Ngaire Blankenberg
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This 1999 article explores how media can convey Ubuntu values in Africa, sparking soul-searching questions about institutions and their impact on future generations.
Abstract
This transitional period in our history is the opportune time for all our institutions to take stock and ask hard, soul-searching and fundamental questions about who they are, which knowledge is crucial and important, what are the consequences of knowledge and research to future generations in the shaping of thought, values and society, what are the unique features of these institutions in Africa today? In what ways these features can best be exploited to shape the people of this continent and the world in the future (Makgoba, 1997:182).
Citation format
BLANKENBERG, Ngaire. In search of a real freedom: Ubuntu and the media. Critical Arts-South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 1999, 13: 42–65.