IGWEBUIKE AND BELONGINGNESS

Abstract

This paper appreciates Belongingness and Igwebuike as the African-Igbo metaphysics of effective communal relationship. The researcher, through the method of critical analysis discovered that every being is part of a whole and no being can be identified except in the whole, that is what a being is and in proper sense, a being belongs. The being is therefore the basis of the „Igwe‟. „Igwebuike‟ (strength in complementarity) can only be possible if we truly belong to our community, can be identified in our society, are responsible, can give and accept all expressions of love. Since a tree cannot make a forest, let us come together in perfect integration and get ourselves identified by understanding that we are nothing except in the whole of which we are part of.