Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

Naturally we are created male and female it implies that no man is an island. Human association remains the way forward in explaining our nature as human being. Relating with each other is the unavoidable way of identifying the importance of each other in our dealings. Helping one another is the concrete attributes that is in us as a social being that cannot do without the people around us directly or indirectly for survival. Though, in us we reactivate the human element which makes us to choose who we walk, interact, and associate with. All these problem of selecting who, where and when to stay with our companion is because we are incapable of recognizing the natural tendency that holds our being. These problems and other have their solution on our common saying, which has it that a tree cannot make a forest. Socialization is the starting point of our identity as human being and environments. Therefore, I am, because you are, remaining motivating agents. Hence, this work has implored both expository and analytical research methodology; it also used secondary data form of collection. Also, the researcher was actually motivated to write on this topic, having seen the ugly trend of Western selfish individualistic way of life gradually dethroning our communitarian spirit. The finding in this work is that of the need to be community conscious, connectedness and common interest in order to have a meaningful existence. This work employed two methods: expository, and analytical.

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