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Individualism versus Community in Africa? The Case of Botswana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Emery M. Roe
Emery M. Roe
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
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Extract

This short note provides one answer to an anomaly that has perplexed many an observer of rural development in sub-Saharan Africa: How is it possible that two deeply-rooted values in some African societies – the people's sense of individualism and their sense of community – have persisted through time when they seem to work against each other?

Type
Africana
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , June 1988 , pp. 347 - 350
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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