MIASMU students identify extended family community

In Africa, it is impossible to live without belonging to an extended family community that must be celebrated, nurtured, developed and protected. Maryknoll Institute for African Studies (MIASMU) students, therefore, are asked to identify the extended family community to which they belong and that has given them their human life.

Most non-African students have trouble answering this question as they feel they are hybrids or creolized and belong to many different communities. However, MIASMU argues from field research that everyone is in fact rooted in a primary family community that is the ongoing source of their true identity forever. Can you identify your primary family community?