KHOTSO – COMMUNALISM AND PEACE Khotso reflects an African traditional ontology which is anthropocentric and sociocentric, that is, based communalism which is based on inseparable interdependence, or transpersonal interconnectivity. Communalism implies co-existing with nature and the world, through existence-in-relation, being-for-self-and-others, being-with-others, being-in-the-world, through a humane and socialist attitude to life.