STATEMENT ADDRESSING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND ENVIROMENTAL IMPACT IN THE BOOK 'what Must Not Be Lost'
What Must Not Be Lost is an African periscope of the unique social cultural mode of living of the African people which carries in itself the instrument and standards of value measurement as well as action modulator of the African people. In such morally conscious echelon, the African moderates his/her attitude towards the other in economic perspective where, not the commodity or the money matters but the being for the other in provision of needs. Hence is such economic dimension, ‘What Must Not Be Lost’ crystalizes the African non monetization attitude and his/her value for the money and dignity of the human person as an end in itself and not a means to an end.
Environmentally, What Must Not Be Lost, shows the ontological relations between man and his environment. It lauding the African interconnectivity with the universe and his/her dependence on it as well. Thus, the African develops a care conscious attitude to the environment bearing in mind that any harm done to the community or environment, affect the hegemony or stability of the community. In this aforementioned, What Must Not Be Lost is a re-echo of the African inter relativity to his/her universe and inter community to his/her environment
‘What Must Not Be Lost’ re affirms like Senghor, Nyerere, Kaunda, Okolo and many other African and non-African scholars, the unique essence of the African as a social being. Hence it is the Negritude, Ujama, Humanism and bantu as well Ára adugbo’ of the African in his/her social mode of being with the other in the world. This social implication, modifies the Africans relations with his/her fellow man in a very ‘good conscious’ dimension and thus modifies his/her thought, words and actions as a being in the world.
Dr. Valentine E. Obinyan Lecturer/project coordinator
