Integral Community Enterprise in Africa

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.

• Table of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesAbout the AuthorForewordAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroductionPART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE INTEGRAL JOURNEY1: Overview of my research trajectoryPART II: ORIGINATION OF RESEARCH: RESEARCH METHOD2: My subjective inner call: the emotive researcher3: My objective outer challenge: how I expressed my inner desire in confronting concrete challenges in my societyPART III: CONTEXT: PHENOMENOLOGY4: Uncovering imbalances in my context: a description of Ewu Community, Paxherbal and St Benedict Monastery5: Unravelling missing depths: my contextual transformational topographyPART IV: CO-CREATION6: Emancipatory critique: introduction to feminism in an African context7: Towards a true Pax Africana: communitalism as an approach to health, community and enterprise in Ewu, Edo State, NigeriaPART V: CONTRIBUTION AND TRANSFORMATION8: Participatory action research in an African context: the case of Ewu village, Edo State, Nigeria9: Cooperative inquiry in an African context: the case of Paxherbal and ACIRDPART VI: DISTILLATION AND CONCLUSION OF THE INTEGRAL JOURNEYCHAPTER 10: CARE-ing for Nigeria: towards an integral university in AfricaIndex

‘A work of genius with high reflective ambience, originality and vision, requiring a major restructuring of our epistemological armament. A must read for intellectuals of all descents seeking to achieve multicultural reach through transcultural disciplinary approach.’ — Prof. G.O Ozumba, Centre for Integrative Humanism, University of Calabar, Nigeria‘Anselm Adodo proposes communitalism as an indigenous, sustainable and integral approach to tackling the developmental challenges of contemporary Africa. This book documents a personal and community journey, but it’s relevance is universal.’ — Dr. Edward Paice, Director, Africa Research Institute, London, UK‘Communitalism is based on the premise that all humans, communities and nations must seek solutions to their problems from within. Adodo demonstrates this by the successful experiments conducted in a rural community in Nigeria. The key strength of communitalism is that it can be replicated anywhere. Africa is in dire need of such a theory originating from Africa.’ — Prof. Ohioma Pogoson, Director, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria‘In modern times we are looking for an integral vision of our world and the human being after the unity has fallen apart: East and West, North and South, individual and community, science and spirituality and economics. Father Anselm Adodo, known for his research in traditional herbal medicine, is presenting a new integral vision, the theory of Communitalism. This is true African Wisdom, enriching the other cultures of this globe.’ — Notker Wolf, O.S.B., Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order, Rome, Italy‘An intellectually brilliant and elegantly argued theory for all who wish to understand Africa and its stunted economic growth and development. Adodo presents refreshing and home-grown pathways to holistic development in Africa.’ — Samuel Etatuvie, Director-General, Nigeria Natural Medicine Develop