An Igbo Concept of ‘Community’
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48047/692jg769Keywords:
Igbo, Africa, Community, Socio-ontological, Communalism, Society, NwanneAbstract
This paper presented a socio-ontological conception of community from the perspective of Igbo thought. It argued that the concept ‘community’ expresses the Igbo experience of life and what reality is, to the extent that to be is to be in, with, for, by, of and through a ‘community’. In exploring the significance of the concept of community in traditional Igbo ontology, the paper highlighted the transcendental dimension of community with the investigation of the connection between earthly community and the community that exists in the hereafter. It made a contribution to literature on such discourse by shedding new light on the Igbo concept of ‘community’ and its expression as ‘communalism’ by which the Igbo is identified. It adopted the method of philosophical analysis.
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