Integral Community Enterprise in Africa: Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism

ISBN-13: 9780367887261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Anselm Adodo

Opis

This book demonstrates that an institutionalized model of business and enterprise, based on nature, community, spirituality and humanism, as demonstrated by a Nigerian community enterprise, is a better driver of social and technological innovation in Africa. Father Anselm Adodo proposes the theory of Communitalism as a more indigenou

Spis treści

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

About the Author

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE INTEGRAL JOURNEY

1: Overview of my research trajectory

PART II: ORIGINATION OF RESEARCH: RESEARCH METHOD

2: My subjective inner call: the emotive researcher

3: My objective outer challenge: how I expressed my inner desire in confronting concrete challenges in my society

PART III: CONTEXT: PHENOMENOLOGY

4: Uncovering imbalances in my context: a description of Ewu Community, Paxherbal and St Benedict Monastery

5: Unravelling missing depths: my contextual transformational topography

PART IV: CO-CREATION

6: Emancipatory critique: introduction to feminism in an African context

7: Towards a true Pax Africana: communitalism as an approach to health, community and enterprise in Ewu, Edo State, Nigeria

PART V: CONTRIBUTION AND TRANSFORMATION

8: Participatory action research in an African context: the case of Ewu village, Edo State, Nigeria

9: Cooperative inquiry in an African context: the case of Paxherbal and ACIRD

PART VI: DISTILLATION AND CONCLUSION OF THE INTEGRAL JOURNEY

CHAPTER 10: CARE-ing for Nigeria: towards an integral university in Africa

Index

O autorze

Anselm Adodo, OSB is the founder and director of Nigeria’s foremost herbal research institute, the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories. He is a prominent advocate of African herbal medicine research, indigenous knowledge systems, rural community development, health policy reform and transformation of education in Africa.