COMMUNAL RELATIONS IN THE TRADITIONAL IGBO SOCIETY

Philip Emenike Ayika

Abstract


This work investigates into the peace and tranquility of human relations in the traditional society of the Igbo people, who were known for their egalitarianism, communality and religiousness. Not being judgmental but open to the light of literary and informative barrage of evidences, ushers in the community consciousness in the individual minds of the Igbo. This is a culture of life, where all hands are on deck to achieve not just life but a beautified life. Everyone has a self-determining role to play in their disparate worlds that complement one another. There is thus political, economic and social independence and peace. Free conscious determination of self in a community that shares its overarching principles with the members is a good platform for peace.

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