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: can we learn from ujamaa and ubuntu?

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 (2016) and European Modernity: A Global Approach (2017).

The book argues that a new conceptualization of 'the global' and 'the planet' requires input from African and Asian language cultures.