Contemporary Youth NeoǦculture, Cultural Integration, and African Social Development
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2017
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RUN Journal of Cultural Studies
Abstract
The relationship between the older generation and the younger age bloc,
in Africa, today, is being redefined. Such a redefinition is occasioned by the
aesthetics of the culture of the latter age category. This is geared towards
a redirection of the continent’s development course. However, certain
conditions are required for the attainment of the objectives of the new
aesthetic cultural order. The paper, therefore, investigates the nature of
the new youth attitudinal culture which conflicts with the older
generational cultural codes. From the Russian dialectical materialism
perspective, the paper analyses youth attitudinal shift as driven by huge
proclivity for contrary moral view. The paper concludes that the youth
rank in Africa is endowed with the cerebral capabilities to drive Africa’s
development in all ramifications if the psyche of the youth rank in Africa is
emancipated from the controvertible African thought system and ethical
stipulations.
Key Words: Aesthetics, Neo-culture, Youth, Africa, Development, Cultural codes