-The Constitution of Muntu- is an effort to outline the Bantu conception of person. The inquiry is undertaken in view of two perspectives: "a formative dimension, " which envisages the person as a perfectible reality bound by certain determinisms; and "a" "formal dimension, " which envisages him as a definable reality. The two are complementary. In going about this task, a great importance has been alloted to the -sources- or causes of muntu as a person.
The ultimate goal of the inquiry is to lay down a viable foundation to African philosophy and theology by understanding the subject engaged in those disciplines - man the knower."