A REVIEW OF KANU’S “IGWEBUIKE AS THE ONTOLOGICAL PRECONDITION OF AFRICAN ETHICS”

Abstract

The need for African ethics is very important now that onslaught of modernism and its allies have influenced what is left of African values and morals. So there is need to take again a critical survey for proper re-interpretation, re-construction and re-situating African ethics to suite Africans in their world view. This is against the view of some foreigners who visited African continent especially during the colonial era, with the view that Africans do not have any sense of morality. But Okafor (1974) strongly argued against this,