| dc.description.abstract | Africa’s current socio-economic predicament is often solely attributed to political and
economic mismanagement. However, such an analysis is far from comprehensive, as
it fails to account for the historical, sociological and psychological causes of the
current unsatisfactory social conditions in the continent. Consequently, using the
critical and prescriptive techniques of philosophic reflection, this paper examines four
apparent mental impediments to desirable social transformation in contemporary
Africa, namely, conservatism, feeble social consciousness, blind acceptance of the
white-black dichotomy, and a fixation with foreign paradigms of managing public
affairs. The paper calls for an interdisciplinary approach to the verifying, mitigating
and/or eliminating of these impediments. | en |
