A Discourse On Socio-Political And Cultural Homogenization And The Question Of African Identity
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https://doi.org/10.69980/ajpr.v28i1.486Keywords:
Discourse, Socio-political, Culture, Homogenization, Africa, Identity Question, GlobalizationAbstract
This paper tried to interrogate concepts of socio-political and cultural homogenization and how they can answer the question of African identity. Homogenization as used here has dualistic implications: (1) To systematically present the possibility that African cultures can be harnessed to ensure a cultural unity for more unique identification of African peoples. (2) To present the possibility of African socio-political culture that would facilitate African political and economic independence with particular reference to certain African attitudes that portray already, the homogenization idea. But then questions arise: Can there be a uniformity of culture in Africa? In the face of globalization, what is the fate of African cultural identity? How could socio-political culture bring about the idea of homogenization to politically salvage Africa from political and economic dependency? In an attempt to answer these questions, the paper argued that there is the possibility of a processed African cultural and socio-political homogenization that can address the question of African identity. It explored the strengths in the diversity of African culture; and equally presented a mechanism that enhances African identity through cultural and socio-political homogenization that is processed. It is very significant following the fact that it has both theoretical and practical dimensions through which it addressed the question of cultural and socio-political identity crisis in Africa. It adopted hermeneutical and analytic methods so as to give an African cultural history and equally analyze the whole process to be able to prove the possibility of African cultural and socio-political homogenization and their strengths and weaknesses.
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