REVIEW OF KANU’S “IGWEBUIKE PHILOSOPHY AND THE ISSUE OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT”

Abstract

The present work published in 2017 with the title Igwebuike philosophy and the Issues of Nigeria Development is an expansive work of great value on Philosophical foundations for National development. Development has become a literary cum existential catchword that is often misconceived of its proper meaning and effect. Envelopment meaning to put in an envelope, to cover, fold or veil in gives us an idea with regard to the French word developer (de- meaning un- and velopper as wrap) that literary means to unwrap. Thus, development means unwrapping, un-folding, un-veloping, un-veiling, a kind of becoming or out-growth of what was enveloped, hidden or latent. The concept of development without a deep sustained appreciable reflection is often reduced to mere ideological manipulation of geopolitical gymnastics.