Making Peace with Death: Aunty Tari on Palliative Care, Ubuntu & The Conversations We Avoid
This week on Her Chapter, we sit down with Aunty Tari, whose PhD research in Zimbabwe is doing something few are brave enough to do — looking closely at death, dying, and how community (Ubuntu) shapes the way we care for one another at the end of life. We had the conversation we so often avoid in African households and culture — death — and why that silence costs us more than we realise. In this episode, we talk about: 🕊️ Why death and dying need to become a normal, everyday conversation in our African communities, not something we only face when it's too late 🕊️ Why so many of us resist planning for death, and what that avoidance actually protects (or doesn't) 🕊️ What a "good death" really means, and who gets to define it 🕊️ The often invisible carers who hold end-of-life care together, and why they need support too 🕊️ How ubuntu and African culture already hold the blueprint for communal care, grief, and dying well, if we lean into it Aunty Tari brings both academic rigour and deep personal insight to a topic that touches every single one of us, whether we're ready for it or not. This is a tender, honest, and ultimately hopeful conversation about how we hold each other, from birth to death.
