THE AFRICAN COMMUNALISM THEOLOGY RELIGION ESSAY part 2 Owing to the interrelatedness, which is the underpinning principle of African communalism, every member of the community has the obligation to

THE AFRICAN COMMUNALISM THEOLOGY RELIGION ESSAY part 2 Owing to the interrelatedness, which is the underpinning principle of African communalism, every member of the community has the obligation to

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THE AFRICAN COMMUNALISM THEOLOGY RELIGION ESSAY part 2

Owing to the interrelatedness, which is the underpinning principle of African communalism, every member of the community has the obligation to share with the others. Laurenti Magesa says: “Reluctance or utter refusal to share “with God, one’s ancestors, other persons in the community, and the community itself…destroys the ‘communitarian’ purpose of the universe and is immoral.” [19] Just as a fish cannot live outside water, an individual in African worldview knows that he or she has no meaning and no existence, once he or she is alienated from the community. His or her life can only be “grasped as it is shared.” [20] H. Sindima puts it this way: “We cannot understand persons, indeed we cannot have personal identity without reference to other persons…. The notion of being-together is intended to emphasize that life is the actuality of living in the present together with people, other creatures, and the earth.” [21] The understanding that “all realities are in mutual complementary