Democratic Citizenship Education for Ubuntu in African Universities

This descriptive research explores the demands for freedom and justice by African university students. Justice, Ubuntu and freedom are principles of Democratic Citizenship Education (DCE).Ubuntu is used in the research as a development theory informing African Education systems. While descriptive methods are used to create and come up with a comprehensive and accurate representation of Ubuntu in the Zimbabwean Universities, and democratic citizenship education (DCE) through systematic data collection and analysis. The findings of the research are that, Zimbabwe as a multicultural society requires Ubuntu to help the country to tolerate and accommodate other cultures and people that are different. If principles of justice and freedom were observed in Zimbabwe’s universities, the racial and ethnic conflicts that characterised the country after independence in 1980 could not have taken place. Ubuntu as a democratic philosophy appears to be weakened in Zimbabwe by alarming incidences of electoral and ethnic violence, corruption, dehumanisation, harassment and environmental degradation. The study recommends universities and African societies to embrace Ubuntu philosophy as a guiding philosophy of life to reduce acts of violence, corruption and racial bias.