The Imperative of Culture in Africa Development

ABSTRACT
An obvious tendency in the nature of modern development is the overpowering
influence of Westernization. We now live in the midst of a technocracy being
monitored by the west. This has been given a psychological anchorage that, in
nation like Nigeria, our policy for development seems to be undermining the
potential in our culture and tradition. We have tacitly accepted a separation of
Tradition and Modernity. Thus, our leaders with serious tenacity embrace
globalization, deregulation, privatization and readily ponder to western
recommendation. Meanwhile, there is a pervading menace of unproductive
corruption prebandalism, financial recklessness, crass materialism, uncritical
adoption of foreign paradigm and trivialization of indigenous initiatives. It is
pertinent to note that development has a cultural basis, its pattern is motivated
by reality within a given culture. I