THE IMPACT OF IGWEBUIKE IDEOLOGY ON PEACE BUILDING IN AFRICAN

Abstract

African continent had perceived group soldering as the greatest strategies to tackle difficult and tedious challenges that torment human society. It is an ideology that rose from the natural and spontaneous communalistic spirit in the people's collective relationships. Igwebuike is an Igbo Language which literally means large number is strength. It is a concept that has been developed by Prof. Kanu Ikechukwu Anthony within the context of the underlying principle of African philosophy, religion and culture. The basic ideology there is that united majority is aviable machinery in solving group or members' problems. This paper therefore aims at re-focusing on how Igwebuike as an ideology can be adopted in Africa to provide lasting peace in Africa and among African states and people. The research observes that serious concern is not given to the Igwebuike ideology on the area of peace build. Attention was very much on application of the ideology for economic gains, group opposition attacks and for political gains. The research recommends that earnest concern should be given to this ideology throughout Africa with the use of age –grade system, communal worship system, women folk, kinship system, to mention but a few. The research adopted historical and sociological approaches. Data were sourced from both primary and secondary means. Data were analyzed with phenomenological method of data analysis.