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Moving Beyond Neo-Colonialism to Ubuntu Governance

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I have even come upon a small revelation-and as I proceed daily to recall and reflect, and lay out on the page, it is with an increasing conviction of its truth, that if more of us told our stories to each other, where I come from, we would be a far happier and less nervous people.

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Mucina, D. (2011). Moving Beyond Neo-Colonialism to Ubuntu Governance. In: Wane, N., Kempf, A., Simmons, M. (eds) The Politics of Cultural Knowledge. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-481-2_6

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