IGWEBUIKE AND AFRICAN COMMUNALISM

Résumé

The problem of African philosophy lies in the definition as it is also in the issues raised in various themes in African philosophy. There are certain characteristics that are seen as African and by nature African that one calls to question this nature and characteristics of the African person in contemporary times. Is African communalism an ontological aspect of our Africaness as seen in the rational continental state of nature as elaborated by the contractarians? Are Africans truly communal or are they ethnically bonded than bonded globally to other race as Africans? Is Igwebuike as an expression of African communalism translated into an ontological praxis that reflects the past in relation to the present? This paper is an attempt to do a critique of Igwebuike as an African communalism and in so doing, interrogates scholars on African communalism in view of redefining what African communalism is and how it can reshape our ethnicism for a better Nigeria and Africa at large. In view of this, the paper uses the qualitative method to rationally redefine what it means to be African and communalistic