Entrepreneurship and dignity of man in Igbo Worldview
Department of Philosophy Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam Campus & Directorate of General Studies Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria.
Review Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2021, 12(01), 047–055
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2021.12.1.0498
Publication history:
Received on 28 August 2021; revised on 30 September 2021; accepted on 02 October 2021
Abstract:
One of the greatest values in Igbo cosmology just like most people of the world is the dignity of the human person; and the parlance that there is dignity in labour is not strange to the Igbo people of Nigeria. In fact, it would be said that ndi Igbo are the people that understood the parlance better than every other people of the world. Consequently, an Igbo person does anything humanly possible to acquire the dignity bestowed by labour on humanity through genuine means he or she knows how.One will now wonder little why ndi Igbo engage in all sorts of enterprise excluding none. This is because they believe that it is in enterprise that man’s dignity is haboured. Physically, among the factors that enhance man’s dignity, wealth is the simplest and most visible that one can easily access; ndi Igbo believe that it is through ones enterprise that wealth can be created. Therefore, the paperseeks to consider analytically those enterprenual activities that ndi Igbo explore such as Igbaboi, Imuahia, olu aka and other entrepreneurial and apprenticeship system through which they ensure that wealth keep on circulating in their midst in other to ensure that man’ dignity remains sacrosanct in Igbo cosmology.
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship; Dignity of man; Igbo cosmology; Igbaboi; Imuahia; Apprenticeship
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