Education and the Challenge of Social Cohesion in Africa
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2025
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Humanus Discourse; AJournal of the Faculty of Humanities, Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State
Abstract
This paper was informed by the contribution of Julius Nyerere’s education for self-reliance and its pragmatic impact on education today. This brings about an
understanding that knowledge should not just be for knowledge’s sake but should
order a course in the individual and society at large. Beyond Nyerere’s
recommendation, this paper argues for a form of education that is geared towards
attitudinal and social re-orientation, which will bring about social cohesion in
Africa. In carrying out such task there should be an educational reformation at all
levels of learning that will engender harmonious living in the society. This paper
submits that education, just like the Socratic recommendation should be geared
towards enlightenment and social orientation that will instil the right values,
which will consequently foster a peaceful coexistence across tribes, ethnicities, and
religions in Nigeria.