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There is a consensus that given the myriads of crisis besetting Africa, that she must find a new direction, a re-invention of the African mind, and an appropriate philosophy of progress. The question then is, what will such a philosophy of progress and re-invention that is tailored to the African condition be like? Among the visions being espoused and proposed by some is the Westernization paradigm of development, what some call the Eurocentric discourse, which claims that Africa has no alternative than to rediscover the Westernization agenda started by colonialism, a better and more effective immersion into Western civilization understood as the universal and natural path to human, cultural, material and social progress. Our essay here tries to review this Eurocentric discourse, her claims and presumptions, and those of her critics. We tend to articulate a position which lies in Africans having a critical engagement with what western civilization has offered and continues to offer, with a view to appropriating only those ideas, visions and methods which, in combination with relevant African heritage, will unleash her indigenous potentialities in order to ensure a progressive path, respectable well-being and dignity for her people in the future.

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Knowledge Growth and the Re-Invention of the African Mind for a Philosophy of Progress in Africa: A Critique of the Westernization/Eurocentric Discourse