INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY AND NATION BUILDING IN AFRICA: AN INTEGRATIVE SPECTACLE

Abstract

The quest for Nation Building has increasingly become one of the profound yearnings of many citizens around the world. Africa is not insulated from this palpable desire for sustainable development of nations around her territory. This is more the case, where many African nations are largely embroiled in the imbroglio of conflict, crisis, tumult, self-polarity, ethnicity, tribalism and diverse measures of socio-cultural and religious crisis that remains detrimental the to progress and development of such nations. The consistent division, nepotism, corruption and hegemonic polarity of many countries in Africa, has left some units who perceive marginalization, to consistently seek for cessation and the dis-membership of such units from the whole. These sordid traits in many African nations, has become enigmatic and largely detrimental to the peace, progress and development of Africa. The call for Nation Building becomes very germane, urgent and necessary, as scholars must galvanize efforts in proffering measures for coexistence of various units in Africans. In doing this, Philosophy and indeed Intercultural Philosophy remains indispensable as veritable tools of Nation building.This work therefore attempts to address the quest for Nation Building in Africa through the spectacle of Integrative Humanism and Inter-cultural Philosophy.