Abstract

Africa, a land flowing with milk, honey and opportunities, blessed with diverse cultures, mineral resources, good weather conditions and organized traditional religious practices that still have strong influence in the lives of the present-day African people. Despite these benefits, Africa, over the years, had earned negative and derogatory terms from the western world as a result of the state of their societies which is flooded with corruption on the part of the African leaders and the complacency on the part of some of its people to actively make meaningful and pragmatic contribution for development. Spiritual reality of forces as conscious of by some of the African people breeds this docility hence Nyasani argues for an existential free Africans who would be solely responsible for meaningful development in African societies. However, this work argues for the utility of force towards development as against Nyasani's proposal that spiritual realities should be done away with. This work would take mainly a critical and a prescriptive method.
Key Word: Africa, Spirit, Forces, Existential, Complacency, Advancement and Mental and development.