A REVIEW OF KANU IKECHUKWU ANTHONY’S “IGWEBUIKE PHILOSOPHY AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION IN AFRICA”

Abstract

One of the most intriguing aspects of Kanu’s essay is mainly its effort to interrogate the spate of human rights violation in Africa from the perspective of the Igbo-African indigenous knowledge systems. He does this through the ideologies and perspectives embedded in the concept of ‘Igwebuike.’ The present study intends to disinter the strengths and weaknesses of Kanu’s (2017a) proposal regarding how to not only consider but also safeguard and guarantee human rights in Africa. Before we explore the weight of his proposal, the task of each of the following paragraphs is to explain the meaning of Igwebuike as well as the spate of human rights violation in Africa. This is calculated to allow us to possess a good gaze of the perspective that Kanu’s analysis derive.