In Bantu Vitalogy the collective, not the individual, is the social subject.

Evidence

African identity and culture are based on the intimate and vital union of the family, the tribe and God. From this, it results that the point of departure is not the “I” or even the individual, but the “you” – the collective, rooted in the community and the tribe. The social subject in African Vitalogy is, therefore, impersonal. It is the community, the tribe. The individual cannot be realised outside of the community, the clan and the tribe (even in his personal choices). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 331

Categorization

• XREF: Against Western individualist philosophy — contrasts with Descartes’ cogito and contractarian individualism; echoes the ‘I-Thou’ relational turn in Buber but with communal priority. Resonates with my anti-individualist thread from Marx, Horkheimer’s critique of the bourgeois ‘I’.
• DEFINE: Defines the impersonal social subject central to African Vitalogy.