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The ancient Yoruba culture was one guided by the ultimate desire to cater thoroughly for the needs of individuals and the entire community. With the core areas (courtyards, marketplaces etc…) serving as the societal heart or source of energy of the system existing from a scale as complex as town planning down to household architecture.
The Yoruba is known historically to be an ethnic group which embraced the concept of communal living on a more intimate level than we live in several societies today. In setting such as this, certain issues such as lonliness, addiction, mood disorders and so on, that could compromise the mental health of individuals were either non existent or rarely ever progressed to threatening levels.
“Uijma” (from the seven core principles of Nguzo Saba meaning Collective Work and Responsibility) calls for a commitment “to work for the good world we all want and deserve to live in, a world ( as the Odu Ifa of ancient Yorubaland says), where there is full knowledge of things, happiness everywhere, peace, well being, security of person and where everyone can live lives of dignity and decency in a context of maximum human freedom and human flourishing.”
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