TY  - JOUR
T1  - Role of Culture in African Development
AU - Edigin, Lambert Uyi 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
SP  - 295
EP  - 300
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2010.295.300
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2010.295.300
KW  - Denying
KW  -heritage
KW  -anchor
KW  -deconstructing
KW  -ancient
KW  -obviate
AB  - There is no denying the fact that Africa has a bank of rich cultural heritages with diverse aesthetic values that are flexible and highly adaptable with imbued ancient wisdom yet undiscovered for today uses and purposes. The culture  has a lot of educating and reformative values which can impact positively on re-regulating today’s and future societal norms and morals. The enslavement to western value orientations and culture has produced the conflict of values. We therefore need a re-orientation of the cultural values if we must benefit from the past and utilize it to make the today and tomorrow. But if a return to the exact glorious past is impossible, how can we re-validate viable values, contextualise and consolidate them for today, obviate the mistakes of the past and confront today and tomorrow with such lasting eternal values that can make the today active in a world where values are no longer constant. These questions we try to answer through secondary research sources, to anchor on the need to educate the African mind through a progressive cultivation of generative thinking capacity.
ER  -