Ahamefula: The Logic of Unity and Identity (New Paradigm for African Leadership Development)
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 7
Abstract
Plethora of arguments exist on the need to adopt and follow a logic that is independently African devoid of interruption and interjection in the leadership and management of African affairs and development. African contemporary indigenous philosophers have come up with various flowering philosophies geared towards cooperation and harmony of Africans disregarding their existing diversities. Ahamefula: the logic of unity and identity (New paradigm for African leadership development) while not dispelling these efforts, has seen this as a dev elopement to the teeming thematic advocacy to further liberate Africans from the gulag of the western imperialist economic and political dependence using internal mechanism. The Igbo notion Ahamefula is derived from two words, namely, “Aham” and “Efula” which means “my name will not be lost or my identity will not be lost”. These are words used to connote the identity (Ejiri mara) of a person, a family, a community or a nation. Ahamefula can also be rendered as “ahamefula” meaning my family heritage, identity or root should not be lost or closed up. Ahamefula is founded on the logic of unity and identity. Being conscious of the significance of unity, the paper argues that the use and application of internal logic akin to African existential conditions has the propensity and fluidity to take Africans to the desired economic, social, political, cultural and religious promise land. It also argues that as a continent with sovereign states; its unity is of utmost necessity which will navigate the process of building a formidable political, economic and military structure comparable with those of the European Union, Asian tigers, Northern and Southern America. This is possible in the context and atmosphere of Ahamefula as an internal logic of unity and identity. This paper adopts critical, analytic and historical methods in driving home its argument.
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Ephraim Ahamefula Ikegbu Ph. D
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