AQUINO Journal of Philosophy

Belongingness remains the African metaphysics of to be while Afromodals are African ways of to be. Afromodals are African modalities of being and belongingness. They are the African models for communalistic existence and a communitarian mode of being and belongingness. Afromodals are the African metaphysicaal modalities of realities as well as the existential locus of interconnectedness of realities in the African worldview. Being is always in one way or another. That is to say that being belongs. In African philosophy, especially in African metaphysics, there are different modalities of this associative nature of belonging, which is represented in the concept of afromodals. Afromodal is an African way of appreciating the modality of to be. Using the method of critical interpretation, the researcher finds out that belongingness is a common strand in the afromodals.

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