CULTURAL RELATIVISM: AN IMPEDIMENT TO AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT
CULTURAL RELATIVISM: AN IMPEDIMENT TO AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: There have been spates of reactions to the concept of cultural relativism which are based on the fact that every culture has its own peculiar norms and values that seem incompatible with one another. This, for many, has led to the traumatic experience of the modern Africa. The reason is, relativism has underplayed the influence of colonialism on Africa which has also engendered a new African personality. In other words, Africa is no longer comfortable with scholarship projection of cultural ‘set apart’ in the event of emancipation from poverty, hunger and diseases. This ultimately accounts for the reason Anthony Appiah and many other scholars support a Universalist approach to cross-cultural understanding.

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