PHILOSOPHY OF NYAYOISM AS AN EDUCATIONALTEMPLATE FOR AFRICAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The antediluvian perception that “primitive Africans had never invented a single thought†no longer has force in contemporary scholarship. It is also true that there persist many positive and improved insights from the African progenitors that can assist in contemporary social cohesion. This is the main thrust of this study. It portends to show that the age long supercilious position that “what is Western is thoroughly perfect and immaculate†is a fallacious folly and is one of the banes for the de-development that has become the lot of the African space. It is in line with these truths that this study imposes the need to revisit the philosophy of Nyayoism as postulated by Moi in order to justify the existence of African Philosophy and also deduce some of its positive and useful aspects for utility. This research argues that Nyayoism can serve as a development ground for pedagogy as well as for improved and holistic knowledge that takes cognizance of what is truly African. For its aim, this research explores the analytic method. It concludes that Nyayoism is a philosophy of life which when holistically embraced, projects the groundchanging culture for the reformation of minds and societal re-engineering in achieving integral and sustainable development, especially in African societies.