«With the navel tied to the territory»: a narrative cartography of the ancestral Afro-Colombian forms of interrelationality linked to Ubuntu

Abstract

This article presents the results of the cartography built around the narratives of Afro-descendant scholars about the ancestral forms of interrelationship linked to the practice of ubuntu. The methodological and creative exercise allowed to recognize and graphically visualize the experiences, meanings and knowledge that survive in their narratives through orality. The cartographic image synthesizes, among others, the narratives about spirituality, collective memory, ancestry and the forms of resistance and re-existence, aspects that, from the point of view of the experts interviewed, are the keys to the meaning and the practice of the ancestral philosophy of ubuntu.