The Ubuntu International Film Series Online
MSU Libraries in partnership with the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities Program presents the Ubuntu International Film Series.
Ubuntu: a Zulu word translated as humanity that has become a global philosophical principle: “I am because we are.”
The two-week film series (Monday-Thursday) includes eight unique films from different global contexts. The film screenings will be followed by discussions with local and African experts who will explore global evocations of the concept of Ubuntu. The closing in-person screening and panel discussion is on April 3 at TBD.
All events are free and open to the public. Online registration is required to access the zoom events.
The film series is co-sponsored by the MSU Library, the African Studies Center, the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities Program and the Institute for Ubuntu Thought and Practice. For more information contact Erik Ponder, the African Studies librarian: ponderer@msu.edu
Click here for the full film series schedule.
- Date:
- Wednesday, April 2, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Film: Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (Directed by Robin Shuffield, France 2006: 52 minutes)
A documentary film about Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso. Sankara was known as "the African Che," and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his devastating humor, his spirit and his altruism.
Discussant: Ndumiso Dladla (South Africa)
Ndumiso Dladla lives in the great city of Pretoria, South Africa where he teaches legal philosophy at the Department of Jurisprudence, University of Pretoria. His research interests include African philosophy with a special focus on Ubu-ntu philosophy as well as social, legal and political philosophy. He is author of numerous articles in these fields and of a monograph Here is a Table: A Philosophical Essay on the History of Race/ism (2020). He was co-editor of African Economic History special issue Neo-colonialism and Economic Sovereignty in South Africa. He is a member of the Azanian Philosophical Society.