My sister and I run a microcredit program for women in our community, but we disagree about expansion plans. She wants to scale up quickly to help more people, while I worry about maintaining the personal relationships and ubuntu principles that make our program different from predatory lending.
More people experience this than they realize.
You're grappling with how to scale ubuntu-based economic models without losing the relational foundation that makes them transformative rather than extractive.
“Where Are You with African ubuntu economy and communal wealth?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.