Kwame Nkrumah and the Search for Uram

African theories of meaning in life: A critical assessment

“…Although understandings of destiny differ, it is roughly the (God-given) communal end that a person is properly disposed to achieve in the light of his particular temperament, abilities, and situation. Gbadegesin is the most prominent advocate of such an approach, remarking that "destiny is construed as the meaning of a person -the purpose for which the individual exists" where "the 3 See also Gbadegesin (1987), Mawere (2010), Ndubisi (2013), and Ikuenobe (2017). For empirical reports from Africans who are not philosophers expressing a similar view, see Mason (2013), and Wissing, Khumalo, and Chigeza (2014).…”

African theories of meaning in life: A critical assessment

“…Although understandings of destiny differ, it is roughly the (God-given) communal end that a person is properly disposed to achieve in the light of his particular temperament, abilities, and situation. Gbadegesin is the most prominent advocate of such an approach, remarking that "destiny is construed as the meaning of a person -the purpose for which the individual exists" where "the 3 See also Gbadegesin (1987), Mawere (2010), Ndubisi (2013), and Ikuenobe (2017). For empirical reports from Africans who are not philosophers expressing a similar view, see Mason (2013), and Wissing, Khumalo, and Chigeza (2014).…”