Towards a Conceptual Decolonization of "Bastardised" African Value (original) (raw)
2017, Crawford University Journal of Business and Social Sciences, Department of Business and Social Sciences, Crawford University, Igbesa
As documented in many literatures of African Studies, one of the horrors befalling the African people, is the cultural domination and expropriation through Colonization, Christianisation and Western Civilization. So potent has been the effect of intrusion that certain core African values have been "bastardised". The implication of this situation is such that the ideas by which Africans live, by which they relate with others, and through which they also make sense of the universe, seems no longer theirs. They are at once rejected by the culture they are tending towards, and are also cut off from where they are coming. This paper attempts a retrieval of authentic African cultural values from the morass of bastardisation created by Colonization, Christianisation and Western Civilization. It raises questions such as: what are the hindrances linked to Colonization, Christianisation and Civilization that must be eradicated? How is the task to be attained? The paper argues the thesis that proper retrieval of authentic African values "Afrioxology" should begin with conceptual decolonization of contemporary African value systems. To accomplish this task, the paper adopts a qualitative research analysis and critical evaluation of postulations on African culture. Drawing insight from Fanon"s radical model of post-colonial social engagement, it further argues that conceptual decolonization demands reeducation and re-civilization of the African mind.
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