Balancing Individualism and Collectivism: A Conversation on Afrocentricity

Abstract

The paper is based on email conversations to address the area of concern, namely how to balance individual and collective needs within a pan- Africa and global context in order to redress the historical and current imbalances that result in social and environmental injustice. The paper suggest that African Indigenous ways of knowing (including ways of doing science albeit not in Western-type fashion) can be brought into some relationship with Western models of science by rescuing the enlightenment from itself through critical systemic thinking.