![]() This hypothesis ignores the fact that humans are born and maintained in community. It is assumed that the state of nature is an anti-social condition marred by malice. This reading of sovereignty endeavors to arrest the political volatilities of the hypothetical state of nature. In Hobbes’ words: the Essence of the common-wealth which (to define it,) is One Person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the Author, to the end he may use the strength and means of them all, as he shall think expedient, for their Peace and Common Defence. Such an argument links the performance of sovereignty to a notion of government. Hobbes’s view of sovereignty is dependent on the formation of the absolute state. In Leviathan ( 1982), Thomas Hobbes posits a structural approach, which provides an allegorical postulation of the foundation of state sovereignty. This paper maps out the philosophical underpinnings behind our senses of African anthropology, aiming to ground Africa’s place in studies, while also discerning its current planetary challenges. ![]() ![]() This perspective, with roots in scholars like Hobbes, lives on in anthropological discourses. ![]() There is a well-established tradition of scholarly discourses that treats Africa as a natural laboratory against which European theories of modernity are tested. ![]()
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