This book presents a two-pronged analysis of Africaâs predicament by looking at the duality of ethics and identity. It tries to trace the problematics of westernization and modernization within the contexts of neo-colonialism and continued exploitation of Africa by external forces, as well as the complicity of Africans themselves. Its subject is the influence of history in the making of modern African identity, nationalism, peace-building and questions of ethics and justice.
Volume One: What is Ailing Africa? draws attention to the idea of âreinvented Africaâ through what the author denotes as a âsocial identity reconstructionâ based African cultural and historical context. The big question is on how Africa can turn things around and enable her to play a significant role in international affairs. The volume is a critique of the loud European claim that Africa had to wait for the coming of Europeans in order for her development to take place. This is the myth and deception that has been subjected to Africa since the introduction of slavery, the subsequent colonialism and finally neo-colonialism. Africans are now newcomers in their world. They are still founded on their strong culture. They are not that much passive victims of westernization. The book highlights the importance of education and social revolution. It attempts to demystify the general Europeans concoction that Africa is a fated, ailing, and underdeveloped. Development is a relative term. The book tries to espouse the weakness within the modern African governance carried out by the home-grown colonialists operating on the foreign political structure which has not been Africanized. Hence, they are the main stumbling blocks against the reintegration, reinvention, and reunification of Africaâs development. If Africa has to develop fast, its operation must be rooted in African traditional beliefs, religious systems. The volume in totality then utilizes this construct to investigate the possibilities of re-inventing âinvented Africaâ through a redefined internalized perception of human rights and an Africanist âsocial constructâ within practical Philosophy for a reintegrated, reinvented, and reunited Africa. This volume, therefore, is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on African philosophy and development.
Volume Two: The Gap between the Rich and Poor: The Right to an Ethical Human Minimum: A discourse on H. Odera-Oruka Theory analyzes Orukaâs concept of Ethical Minimum as the foundation of human rights. It presents human rights as the starting point of solving the problem of inequality, and examines the relationship between Ethical Minimum and Sagacity as the foundation for human rights. Human Minimum, therefore, is the necessity of every person in order to live rationally with dignity as a human being. The objective