How we can realise elusive dream of an African ideology

Ujamaa experiment was the most serious effort at actualising the pan-Africanist dream. [iStockphoto]

An important dream of pioneering African leaders was to evolve ideologies that reflect our culture. However, after 60 years of independence, many African countries have become poor copies of western capitalist democracies much to the disappointment of pan-Africanists who believed that Africans are socialist at heart.

The search for authentic African ideologies goes back to our founding fathers who earnestly believed that political independence was meaningless without an appropriate philosophical foundation.