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COMMUNITY AND HUMAN WELL-BEING IN AN AFRICAN CULTURE; pp. 282–298
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An interest in community has remained the concern of philosophers and other thinkers from the period of known history. All through the history of thought, there have been those who have tried to denigrate community and who have seen it as something that could be jettisoned or discarded by humans. Among Africans, however, it is generally held that it is in the community of other human beings that the life of the individual can have meaning or significance. This paper pursues this line of thought and examines how the Igbo people of Nigeria, Africa, conceive of the relationship between the individual and the community. The conclusion the paper reaches is that both as individuals and as groups, people need the protective cover that community life offers if their lives are to have any meaning or significance. Community, the paper adds, is the only essential means by which humans can achieve their social goals and aspirations.
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“However, in Africa this is not always the case.A study of the Igbo people of Nigeria by Agulanna (2010) concludes that the life of the individual only has meaning within the context of community.”
From A GROUNDED THEORY EXPLORATION OF WELLBEING FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN FORCIBLY DISPLACED AS A RESULT OF TRAUMA CAUSED BY CONFLICT, BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPANTS LIVING IN UGANDA (2025) · cites this paper as Agulanna (2010)
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- Authors
- Agulanna, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Ibadan (NG)
- Corresponding author
- Agulanna, Christopher
- Venue
- Trames. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Publisher
- Estonian Academy Publishers
- Published
- 2010-08-13
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 282-298
- ISSN
- 1406-0922 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2103154090
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 1.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Trames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › African cultural and philosophical studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › African Studies and Ethnography
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Historical Thought
- Keywords
- community, human well-being, Igbo people, individual and community, African philosophy, meaning of life, social goals, African culture
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