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Solidarity and Human Insecurity: Rethinking Solidarity from the Point of View of Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Tanella Boni
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Abstract

The practice of family solidarity is a fact in African societies even if the people are facing all kinds of risks from an early age, before they exert their activity to take charge. There is lack of civil protections as “social security” which covers individuals from illness and other risks thus transforming African societies into scenes where violence and social insecurity reigns. Under these conditions, the freedom of the individual is in question as well as the protection of citizens, taking into account the risks to life, work, education, health, other environment. The social role to be played by the rule of law is also in question. But the bond of solidarity is primarily ethical. It binds one human to another, beyond the laws and social institutions.

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Diogenes , Volume 59 , Issue 3-4: Africana Philosophy , November 2012 , pp. 72 - 81
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Copyright © ICPHS 2014

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