PHILOSOPHY AND SECURITY ISSUES IN AFRICA

Abstract

Philosophy and security issues in Africa is a discourse of the commonality of Africa lived experience, as it relates with the quagmires posited with the security issues in the continent. It shows an understanding of how the scholarship of philosophy is a tool for a better and all-inclusive comprehension of the problematics of security issues in Africa. The problems associated with Africa historicity, identity thesis, radical Islamism, Arab spring, transnational security challenges, and terrorism and leadership failures are militating against the peaceful coexistence and social relationship in the region. This article is a presentation of philosophy as a framework to the solution of the hiatus of concord and anomaly of governance created by the vast security issues in Africa. The method used is phenomenological analysis. It provided a detailed description of the analytic process engaged in the continent in the myriad of perspectives articulated as fundamentals to the security issues. Philosophy scholarship has provided overarching guidance and principles, when implemented served to abate the recurrent security challenges through it wealth of knowledge vested in reason and pragmatically oriented approaches in ontology, epistemological prowess and the import of axiology and social and political philosophic principles. This article serves in perspective as preoperative in the security issues in Africa and a proactive measure to future security issues in Africa for human and groups’ interrelationship is dynamic and for other continents of the world.