What does it truly mean to be a person?
For centuries, thinkers have described human beings as rational animals, thinking beings, or symbol-making creatures. But among the Nsoʼ people of the Cameroon Grassfields, a person is understood differently. One is not simply born a person; one becomes a person through character, responsibility, community, and oneʼs relationship with both the living and the ancestors.
In Viw鬳: The Nso' Conception of Personhood in a Troubled Era, Kijika Billa invites readers into this profound African understanding of personhood. Drawing from indigenous Nsoʼ indigenous wisdom, history, language, spirituality, and moral traditions, he explores how the idea of viw鬳; the fullness of authentic personhood, can illuminate one of humanityʼs oldest questions: How should we live?
Yet this is more than a study of culture.
Written at a time when Nsoʼ society faces conflict, cultural erosion, identity confusion, and painful internal divisions, the book asks an urgent question: What happens when a people begin to lose their understanding of what it means to be truly human? Rather than offering despair, it proposes a path of renewal by returning to the moral wisdom embedded in indigenous knowledge.
Through the four interconnected dimensions of personhood: w甏 (the human person), rim (spiritual force), kib嫝 (totemic identity), and ŋkfə (ancestral continuity), the book presents a vision of humanity that is deeply relational, ethically grounded, and spiritually alive.
Whether you are interested in African indigenous knowledge, ethics, culture, leadership, or simply the search for a meaningful life, Viw鬳 offers a compelling invitation to rethink what it means to become a true person.
The future of every society begins with the kind of people it chooses to become.
外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
無庫存之商品，在您完成訂單程序之後，將以空運的方式為你下單調貨。為了縮短等待的時間，建議您將外文書與其他商品分開下單，以獲得最快的取貨速度，平均調貨時間為1~2個月。
為了保護您的權益，「三民網路書店」提供會員七日商品鑑賞期(收到商品為起始日)。
若要辦理退貨，請在商品鑑賞期內寄回，且商品必須是全新狀態與完整包裝(商品、附件、發票、隨貨贈品等)否則恕不接受退貨。
