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This page contains links to books and resources — some light reading for anyone curious about the conversations humanists have about humanity. From African humanism and ubuntu to the classic manifestos and modern essays.

Web pages

What is Humanism?

An introduction from Humanists International.

Good Without God: An Illustrated Guide To Humanism

A friendly, illustrated guide (PDF).

What is the Humanistic Theory in Education?

How humanist thinking shapes learning.

Humanism: Africa

An encyclopedia overview of humanism in Africa.

Humanism Needs An Upgrade: Is Sentientism the Philosophy That Could Save the World?

A provocative essay from Secular Humanism.

Academic papers

A Redescriptive History of Humanism and Hermeneutics in African Philosophy

African Humanism in Achebe in Relation to the West

Scientific Humanisms and the Anthropocene, Or the Dream of Steering the Evolution of the Human and Natural World

Find a copy via WorldCat.

Hunhuism or Ubuntuism: A Zimbabwe Indigenous Political Philosophy

By Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange (1980) — a foundational text on ubuntu philosophy.

Essays

Humanist Manifesto I

American Humanist Association (1933).

Humanist Manifesto II

American Humanist Association (1973).

Humanist Manifesto III

American Humanist Association (2003).

The Promise of Humanism

American Humanist Association.

Books

Vehicle For Progress: Rethinking African Cultural Dynamics

A Little Book of Humanism: Universal lessons on finding purpose, meaning and joy

By Alice Roberts & Andrew Copson.

The Oxford Handbook of Humanism

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