EKPOMA REVIEW

As earlier pointed out in my book entitled, The Idea of Spirit in African Philosophy, “the life experiences of African people are multidimensional and multifaceted, revealing and manifesting the nature of reality to African people in their own peculiar way. While many experiences are readily comprehensible some others may seem inexplicable, particularly to non Africans.”1 In the book, we paid particular attention to one of those seemingly inexplicable experiences of spirits and world of spirits in African Philosophy. We shall endeavor in this paper to focus on one of those apparent and controvertible problems of our time that bothers on human and national security challenges that has caught the attention of all concerned citizens of the world today.And as one whose area of special interest, is integral development of the human person, and knowing fully well that there cannot be meaningful development without security, one cannot close his eyes and ears to the national quest for immediate remedies to our security quagmire.

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