By Eruka, Raphael Chukwubike
Ideological constructions for the betterment of the society have remained
man's characteristic response to experiential perceptions of prevailing inhuman
conditions at different points in history. At independence, African nations had
cause to review the legacies of westernism with particular reference to
neocolonialist tendencies and attitudinal capitalism with quite regrettable
results. This left the African leadership clainouring for possible ideological
alternatives and strategization that would restore Africa's lost self-hood and
values exemplified in egalitarianism, cultural revivalism, ~normal sensitivity and
other such fraternal considerations