The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development

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Ezra Chitando is Professor of History of Religion at the University of Zimbabwe Knowledge Management Advisor at Faith to Action Network and Extraordinary Professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Social Justice University of the Western Cape South Africa. Beatrice Okyere-Manu is an associate professor at the School of Religion Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. An author of numerous articles and chapters combining community engagement with scholarly research. Her edited and co-edited works include Intersecting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (2018) African Values Ethics and Technology (2021) and Development Ethics: An African Perspective (2023). Sophia Chirongoma is currently an independent researcher. She was a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion University of South Africa. She is an active member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Her research interests and publications focus on the interface between culture ecology religion health development and gender justice. Musa W. Dube the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Prof of the New Testament is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) and a biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology Emory University. Her research interests include biblical and African literature religion gender postcolonial translation HIV&AIDS Botho/Ubuntu and Earth studies. She is the author and (co-)editor of numerous books. She is the current continental Coordinator of Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (2019-2024); former president of the Society Biblical Literature (2023) and Professor Extraordinaire in the Institute of Gender UNISA.