130 Copyright © 2021, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 11 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7947-3.ch011 INTRODUCTION Colonialism saw the progressive replacement of traditional ways of being in Africa with Western modes of thinking and living. With the end of colonialism on the continent, there have been progressive con- certed efforts, not just in academia but in everyday living in Africa and the African diaspora, to recover age-old ways of thinking and being. This decolonial turn and return to traditional ways of making sense of our lives and the ways we relate to others characterises and represents what Ndlovu-Gatsheni terms “the liberatory language of the future” (2015, p. 485) which “seeks to ask new and correct questions about the human condition, going beyond Euro-American-centric epistemology that deliberately posed Gibson Ncube https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6351-6114 University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe & Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa The Role Ubuntu Could Have Played in Restorative Justice in Zimbabwe ABSTRACT This chapter is interested in how there has been a lack of transitional justice in Zimbabwe in the after- math of the political disturbances and genocide of the early 1980s. The overarching argument is that the failure to recognise the value of Ubuntu has engendered a missed opportunity at transitional justice and healing of wounds, which were caused by the massacres. Ubuntu’s three fundamental praxes, ac- cording to Samkange, are the three fundamental maxims: the respect and recognition of the humanity of others, the preservation of life (human and otherwise), and the importance of the will of the people in as far as governance is concerned. The failure, by ZANU-PF governments, to recognise the salience of these three maxims has led to the persistent marginalisation of ethnic minorities and also the violent impunity of governance characterised by human rights abuses. This chapter proposes an Afrocentric restorative justice model that is founded on the concept of Ubuntu and focuses on the salience of the spirit of humanity in managing human conficts.