Genuine dialogue requires a Bumuntu-paradigm mindset shift beyond self-love and domination.

Evidence

In other words, genuine interreligious and intercultural dialogue requires a fundamental paradigm shift beginning with a radical “forma mentis” metanoia beyond philautia, libido dominandi, and self-referential epistemologies. That is to say, a dialogue guided by the Bumuntu Paradigm, which acknowledges the humanity, dignity and liberty of all human beings, a vision central to the philosophical anthropology of a continent which is the Cradle of Humanity. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 754

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Bumuntu Paradigm as the animating frame for genuine dialogue this chapter proposes.