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ABSTRACT
The notions of the individual and his community in African traditional universe has been problematic since philosophy started as an academic discipline in Africa universities. It has been observed that traditional Africa is characterized as communalistic. They have embedded their observations and reactions in patterns of social, economic and political relationship represented as communalism.
It is in view of this, that we shall try to interprete African understanding of reality and how this affects the social and economic relations of human being in society and within the inner recesses of the individual person.
Accordingly, we shall rationalize and present in manner of consistency the African being in the world. In doing this, we shall try to find answers to questions like; what concepts govern practice in the area of social, economic, and political living among traditional Africans. Into what categories do Africans group their perceptions and experience of reality? As practiced, do the tenets of traditional African communalism not negate those of individual freedom and social justice? Our intention here therefore is to establish the proper relationship between the individual and his community in African communal system, so as not to play into the hands of some western thinkers who believe that the individual is swallowed up in African ontologised socio-political environment. Our methodology shall be synthetically critical.
