FA The Critique of Modernity in Post Colonial African Situation.

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to explore the post modern African conceptions of Modernity and how this understanding severely hampered its development in general and its identity in particular. Due to the impacts of colonialism, neo-colonialism and globalization, modernization is conceived, by Africans, as synonymous with Westernization or Europeanization. This in turn, led African countries, lose their identity and indigenous cultural values. Consequently, as the reconstruction and development programs (policy and strategy formulations in various aspects) did not take these indigenous values as their anchoring point, many African countries could not reach the level of development where they can feed their people, keep their health and facilitate the development of the infrastructure.