Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

Studies and Researches have shown that the human nature is psycho-empirical, Mind and Body centric to the extent that physiological events are transferred and transformed into the psychological domain. The implication is that what affects everyone physically has a corresponding lasting psychological effects which if care is not taken takes everyone into mental enslavement. Africa is a continent which is enslaved by foreign culture due to the sorts of physical chains of enslavement, colonialism and War she has passed through in the past. The researcher of this work will employ phenomenological method to portray his view on how communalist existentialism can be a panacea to this rampaging mental enslavement among Africans. Sadly, enough, these unfortunate experiences or their effects have been sustained by dehumanizing economic poverty, loss of self-identity, and endemic political corruption leading to instability in many African states. To liberate Africans from this foreign ideological mental enslavement, Africans must uphold their communitarian lifestyle existentially.

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