THE TRANSFORMATIVE ROLE OF AFRICAN STORY-TELLING AMIDST ATHEISTIC SECULARISM

Abstract

The world is troubled by myriads of problems. Despite modern-day advances in information communication technology, science, urbanization, etc the world is still troubled by chaos, violence, terrorism, and secularism. Secularism particularly in its atheistic form breeds relativism, social Darwinism, sexual permissiveness, violence, and rugged individualism. The world needs ethics and morals. This paper argues that African traditional story-telling has a place in a world tending towards secularism. African story-telling promoted ethical values such as love, communalism, theism, peace, order, and sociality. Through hermeneutical and analytical methods, the paper reveals that atheistic secularism is dangerous for the world. The paper concludes that traditional African story-telling should be revived and recovered more than ever before to promote a world rooted in ethical values