At first I debated lumping the last two chapters of Peter J. Paris’s The Spirituality of African Peoples together, but then decided the final chapter, “Ethics: African and African American Social Ethics” really needed to stand alone as a kind of summary of much that has come before.According to Paris, the summum bonum in African culture is the well-being of the community: “The preservation and promotion of community is the paramount goal of African peoples in all spheres of life. It is a practic