USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: A Take on Pan-Africanism and Freedom From Religious and Cultural Colonisation

Why is she shouting?

Of course, everything can be simplified. This firebrand is bound to get a lot of sympathy from those who believe themselves to have been morally and intellectually "colonised" or corrupted  by foreign ideals or ideas. Kwame Anthony Appiah treats this and adjacent matters adequately in his "In My Father's House" and some of his subsequent publications.

 No doubt about it, traditional African cultures from their roots up had and still have their own ethics and morality since long before the importation of religious ideas, predominantly from the Middle East (Holy Bible and Holy Quran) - which does not mean to say that apart from modern science and technology, the use of computers and smart phones, we have nothing else to learn from other peoples of the Almighty's piece of earth.

For instance within the global community, the globalisation of  various cultures, Yoruba religion flourishing in Cuba, Brazil,  music , Femi Temowo  doing his thing  etc., there's this very interesting Watchtower issue on honesty  - honesty a universal moral principle which we all readily agree is of absolute relevance to the war on corruption – and it's not as if it's the Jehovah's Witnesses (an avowedly, a non-political organisation)  that has a monopoly on teachings about honesty as a necessary quality  for each and every  good citizen and for the smooth running of any of our societies – the antonym to honesty being dishonesty…

Cornelius

We Sweden

On Monday, 1 February 2016 17:23:18 UTC+1, okeyiheduru wrote:

Please watch:

https://www.facebook.com/segun.kush/videos/10156448172245433/

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Okey Iheduru, PhD

You can access some of my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=2131462.

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