TERMS & CONCEPTS

Collectivist African Personality

This concept speaks to the Pan-African national culture.  While close to the African world in meaning this concept is not essentially a race-based one but a race conscious one.  More importantly, it is an ideologically and culturally based identity.  It speaks to an "African People," which Nkrumah referred to as the African masses and which S. Touré often called the People's Class.  It speaks to the behavior and character of organized entities in their attempt to establish an optimal zone for continued cultural development.