An Exposition of Anaxagoras’ Philosophical Jurisprudence as a Global Framework for De-Westernization of Africa’s Researches

Abstract

The paper, “An Exposition of Anaxagoras’ Jurisprudence as a Global Framework for De-Westernization of Africa’s Researches” is a philosophical attempt at constructing a global theory of research for Africa. The problem which led to the research was that Africa’s research industry which ought to be autonomous and flourishing is now being subjected and limited under successive cultural worldviews of Western researches. Therefore, the particular question which the paper sought to answer was that of how to emerge a global framework for research which would be truly universal? To answer this question, the work proceeded assiduously through different non-empirical but analytical methods thereby reaching the conclusion that the progress of Africa’s research lies in creating a global framework based on Anaxagoras’ jurisprudence based and its emphasis on the unity and diversity of all things including human intellectual researches. The paper argues that this global framework would not only de-westernize Africa’s research industry; it stands the chance of giving African researches the required autonomy as a continental research body within the wider global system. The justification for suggesting this new and global framework lies in the fact that this is going to be the first time that the human community would bear its mind on the need to raising universal standards which would be a meager of all continental and cultural understanding of what shout constitute a standard research? Previous attempts have either been cultural, national, regional or continental worldviews often glorified and seen as standard researches. The paper argues that a global framework that would truly de-westernize Africa’s resources must be based on the concept of ‘diversity in unity’ or ‘autonomy’ within the ‘whole’ as espoused in Anaxagoras’ Philosophy and Jurisprudence

Keywords: Anaxagoras’ Jurisprudence, Africa’s Researches,  A Global Research Framework