Ekwuru's Afrizealotism and the Dialectics of African Predicament

Africa is faced with challenges which emanate from its scary history of slavery, colonialism, racialization, colour politics and internally generated predicaments. The search for a way out of these predicaments has necessitated a philosophical framework for African resurgence. It is on this basis that Emeka George Ekwuru's Afrizealotism emerges as a response to the enduring challenges facing Africa. Afrizealotism which means love and zeal for Africa comes with novelty that is economic, political, social, contextualization and cuts across several factors in order to restore Africa. This work therefore argues that Afrizealotism is a philosophical current aimed at eliciting passion for Africa, and a thorough deconstruction and reconstruction of the pyramid of racism and discrimination at the level of words and meanings, significations and symbolifications, arts and representations, history and historicizing, self-assertion, identity, and ideological currents. While this work employs the methods of textual analysis and exposition in its investigations. It expresses the view that Afrizealotism provides a veritable framework for African consciousness to self crafting and development. Afrizealotism is a liberation philosophy that signals the holistic turning back of the African, with proper care and love and with its new vision of civilization for Africa.