Articles
Communality: A Fundamental Principle of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Historical, Cultural, and Socio-Political Tradition
Dmitri Bondarenko
Vostok/Oriens '2014, №2
The principle of communality is denoted as the ability of the originally and essentially communal worldview, consciousness, behavioral pattern, socio-political norms and relations to spread on all the levels of societal complexity including, though in modified or sometimes even corrupted form, sociologically supra- and non-communal. As a pivotal socio-cultural foundation, the principle of communality has a direct impact on all subsystems of the African society at all the levels of its being throughout its whole history. Precisely this is what can explain to a large extent the originality of African culture, African civilization. In the embodiment of the principle of communality it can also make sense to seek the roots of specificity of the historical process in sub-Saharan Africa.
Keywords: sub-Saharan Africa, communality, community, tradition, culture, society, worldview, history
Pages: С. 10–22
