tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4062524157605873947.post6332827417268363397..comments2023-07-06T09:35:25.339-04:00Comments on The iPriest: Is PAN-ARICANISM surviving in the Web of Globalization? By Oduwale KehindeThe iPriesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08565719360255785971noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4062524157605873947.post-21481094488742979652011-07-16T02:02:42.829-04:002011-07-16T02:02:42.829-04:00A strong insight into a situation that has always ...A strong insight into a situation that has always divided the intellect of the continent called Africa. (I will make a reflection just on an aspect among all you said here). Pan-Africanism as you rightly said it, came in as a sort of revend...ication of autonomy of the black race. It created many schools of thought. The partisants of "if you cannot beat them, then join them". A good representative of this group is one of the greatest african thinkers, known as Sengor, who, maybe out of fraustration or desir to please his masters made an unpardonable mistake by indirectly affirming by his statement, "Emotion is Negro as Reason is Hellenic.”, what Hume has earlier said. <br />And the group of those who wished to tell the world we are not what you thought of us. This group created many branches, starting from those who out what only them can justify made the greatest error error that even Aristote at his time could not make. The apostle of this group was Placide TEMPELS, though, not an African, one cannot talk of Pan-Africanism, or African philosophy, if one think he was one, without mentioning his name. This great man, though, he has the merit of awaking many other thinkers on african mode of beeing, succeeded in pleasing his fellow compatriot who were wondering on what keeps him among the primitives.<br />The problem that has always been the outcome of these ways of thinking Panafricanism is that, it is either one move towards unnecesary revendication or one join the chorus and forget the identity of a people is in question. Without, doubting the positiveness and veracity of its content, I am tempted to think that it might force one to adopt a contre-attack method. That's, a system which want to show we have something that you lack. We are morally, well inculturated and you, deculturated. in another words, your morality, or your culture is not the best one. You tolerate gays, homosexuals, lesbians, your youths no longer respect the elders and the likes, whereas, in our society, the family is secred, sexual matters are respected and the the stuff of this type. <br />But then, what can one do in face of these dilema? I think, among the mothern african intellects, the cameroonian philosopher, Marcel TOWA, makes a point closer to what I deem the right attitude towards this type of situation. According to this great philospher, (from the way I understood his thought) there is no need seeking for revendication. No need trying to propose our own way to the world. All we need is to embrace the society, join the great intellects and strong economics and learn their technics first, after that, then use it to transform our society. For him, the secret is just to make use of our reasons and pass everything under the test of reason, including the existent of God.The iPriesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08565719360255785971noreply@blogger.com