The Ibo Societal Virtues and the Individual Subjectivity

Abstract

This article investigates the African societal virtues with a particular accent on subjectivity. There are qualities which are like high moral standards and they are praised by the Ibo community depicted in Anglophone African Literature. The sociological, sociolinguistic and psychological approaches will be applied. This paper tackles praiseworthy qualities of strength, hard-working capacity and polygamy. Any attempt to deprive freedom of opinions, there is a counter-action to restore this freedom. That is, psychological reactance which strengthens the individual subjectivity.