1. Introduction 2. Ujamaa: evasive and elusive African socialism 3. The Translation of the Unwritten: Ubuntu as Religion, as Law and as Politics 4. Epilogue.
Bo Stråth is professor emeritus. He was Professor of Nordic, European and World History at the Helsinki University (2007-2014), Professor of Contemporary History at the European University Institute, Florence (1997-2007), and Professor of History at the Gothenburg University (1991-1997). He is the author of The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals. Planetary Perspectives (Routledge, 2023), Europe’s Utopias of Peace: 1815, 1919, 1951 (2015) and co-author of A Brief History of Political Economy (Elgar 2016) and European Modernity: A Global Approach (2017).