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Pluralism of values and choices in political, social, economical and mainly in ethical levels is a major issue which critically bring about the key question of conciliation or compromise. What is conciliation or compromise ? How can this key notion is used to solve the issue of the deficiency of ethical marks and the lack of unanimity on the moral ground in a Sub-Saharian Africa facing globalization ? Compromise is expedient whenever dialogue with moral, cultural, religious, social values and behaviours are needed, whenever intercourses between individual and community, tradition and modernity are required. However compromise remains epistemologically fragile and is the best understood through the study of a concrete and actual social situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims at understanding some of the identity issues faced by exmembers of cultic groups. Content and sequence analysis were used in a psychoanalytic theoretical framework to study two interviews, which were conducted with a former member of a Mormon polygamist group. The analysis showed that, although leaving the group has triggered some changes in the participant's identity, these were superficial whereas the most funda mental aspects remained unchanged. Three themes related to the participant's identity are further discussed: a non-integrated introjection of selfrepresentation; differentiation/non-differentiation conflict; and failure in identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]