In Africa community is fundamental: mtu-watu, I am because I belong to an ‘us’. So for them Western individualism is unconceivable... They accuse the Western tradition of having desacralised the world to sacralise the individual... any infringement of its right to live one’s life as one sees fit is a ‘sacrilegious’. Elochukwu E. Uzukwu, referring to a work of Robert N. Bellah, contends that the two principal dimensions of this individualism are utilitarian individualism — the freewheeling entrepreneur or manager who uses every available rational and technical tool to make profit for himself or for his company — and expressive individualism which can be represented by the therapist at work telling his or her client that the basis for a balance in life is first an foremost the consultation with one’s desires or sentiments
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