{ "item_title" : "The Ubuntu Principle", "item_author" : [" Alvan Njoku "], "item_description" : "The most powerful philosophy for modern life was never lost. It was just never taught to you.You are more connected than any generation before you, yet many people feel increasingly alone. You have more choices, more tools, and more individual freedom than previous generations could have imagined. But somewhere along the way, something happened to our sense of community. Many people feel the gap without being able to explain it.Ubuntu offers a way to understand what is missing.Rooted in African traditions and expressed in different languages and cultural practices across the continent, Ubuntu rests on a simple idea: a person is a person through other persons. It offers a way of understanding who we are, how we relate to others, and what we owe one another simply because we share the world.In The Ubuntu Principle: African Wisdom for a Distracted World, author and educator Alvan Njoku draws on traditions from the Igbo, Yoruba, Zulu, Akan, Xhosa, Shona, Wolof, Maasai, Oromo, and other African peoples to explore a different way of living. This is not about returning to the past. It is about understanding what earlier generations knew about human connection and considering what that knowledge means for the lives we lead today.What can African communal traditions teach us about work, grief, justice, raising children, and finding our place in the world? What happens when individual achievement becomes more important than the relationships that sustain us? And what if some of the answers to modern problems lie in wisdom we have overlooked?Grounded in African philosophy, cultural traditions, proverbs, and the author's experience growing up in southeastern Nigeria, this book invites readers to look beyond familiar ideas about independence and success and reconsider what it means to live well with others.The wisdom is older than the world we live in today. Its relevance is not.Book 1 of the African Roots Series.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/661/9798186614609_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "13.99", "online_price" : "13.99", "our_price" : "13.99", "club_price" : "13.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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