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Living and working in Africa I'm deeply influenced by the philosophy and practices of ubuntu - "I am because we are". This way of being in the world  was both deeply troubling and reassuring while I lived through the civil disruption and violence of South Africa in the 1980s.During my studies, I'd found the individualistic and intrapsychic views I encountered in psychology difficult to resonate w…