IGWEBUIKE PHILOSOPHY VIS-A-VIS NATIONAL AND ETHNIC PARTICULARISMS IN AFRICA

Résumé

This Paper examines an African current reality, with emphasis on Nigeria, of the different tensions and conflicts which have become a leitmotif and serious concern for most nations in the continent. While not limiting itself to the rising nationalism in Nigeria and the factors that lead to this situation, the paper also looks at the ethnic particularism part of this situation. This work has an Igwebuike perspective to the situation in the sense that it uses its philosophy as model in an attempt to foster peace building and conflict transformation in the society. The Paper adopted phenomenological and socio-descriptive methods; and bibliographic tool was used in eliciting data for this study. The work reveals that there is untold and unnecessary hardship and pain that nationalism and ethnic particularism bring on the people of Nigeria, and therefore recommends that the African values enshrined in Igwebuike philosophy be adopted in fostering shalom in the face of rising national and ethnic particularisms in the face of conflict decimated Nigeria and the world at large.