EXPLORING UBUNTU: TEACHING CHARACTERS IN SELECTED DRAMA TEXT AS A MEANS OF “SHARING” AND COMMUNITY BUILDING

The paper seeks to express "sharing" as the principle of Ubuntu in human connectedness and community mindedness.At its core, it suggests that when we share our resources, time, or knowledge, we demonstrate care for others and nurture collective well-being.In pedagogy, Ubuntu has been used to guide and promote African education using a drama text in ensuring an understanding of the responsibilities that come up with characters' interconnectedness, that characters interact with one another to develop his or her theme and conflict, while casting aside worn-out perceptions and outdated thoughts.The aim was to establish that all the facts that are vital to the interconnectedness of characters for the success or failure of the principles of Ubuntu be identified by the students in the Setswana drama text The study adopted a qualitative method approach.Interviews were used to enlist 22 second year students who major in Setswana as their home language to identify the characters that maintained and contravened "sharing" as the principle of Ubuntu.Data obtained from interviews were sorted and categorised into themes and analysed from the text systematically.The findings also demonstrate the importance of recognising students' learning that through the critical analysis of literature, the characters as actors in the development of theme and conflict in drama text.