African essence-Towards Redefining African Potentials in the New Millennium

Abstract

This paper adopts the method of analysis and the conclusion is that struggle continues and the nudging and prompting of African essence, culture, and authenticity must be revived by our intellectual response in order to unveil African potentials in this new millennium. The dangers of ignoring threats to the survival of African essence, identity, culture, language, difference, and historicity are clear. We must begin to brainstorm and define this African essence, identity, culture and language; we must begin to see the African community from a more conscious unity of the principle of complementarily. Difference is part and parcel of humanity. We must not take difference to the extreme. We must begin to strike a balance when it comes to the issue of African difference, essence, culture, historicity, language, liberation and emancipation.