AI AND AFRICAN COMMUNALISTIC LIFE AND PRACTICE IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: A PHILOSOPHICAL INSIGHT

Abstract

The contemporary African societyis acquainted with westernindividualistic way of life more than traditional or communal African way of living, this is owing to urbanization, westernization, acculturation and mostly owningto globalization or the influence of science and technology. However, not minding all these, the contemporary African community is not peaceful owing to so many challenges, for instance in Nigeria today, there is much hunger, inflation, bad governance, corruption, insurgency, kidnapping, killings by Fulani herdsmen and unknown gunmen, boko haram and likes. This is also the case with many other African countries and this situation makes the present African man to recall, suggest and yearn for the values obtainable in communalistic way of life led by the Africans of yester years. These values of African communal living are the remedies and suggestions or recommendations found in so many academic conference papers and journals pertaining to the woes of the present African predicaments.Thisresearch, through analytic methodology will analyze the way or model of life obtainable in traditional African society or community before the advent of Europeans or white men. This type of life may be found in some other continents but the greatest manifestation of communalistic way of living was found in the traditional African community.Communalism is a belief and practice of communal living. It means living or interacting in the spirit of one's community. It is a way of life which is community oriented. As this life has respect for life and for elders, value for hard work, truth and honesty, communal spirit and enablingenvironments, peace and the likes, the contemporary African society is recommended to marry or combine these values with the present hyper technological life, especially in this era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not a human being, rather a friendly robot that is encoded with human intelligence and it's meant to do some works human beings do. Finally, owing to challenges to AI and in this AI era, Africans are challenged to develop AI that is conversant with African communal life and living.