Pages: 13-21

Abstract

The African continent has experienced much discrimination and degradation in the international community. To the early Europeans, Africa was a dark continent; hence the mindset that nothing good could come out of it. However, this world view has been proved to be untrue as Africa and Africans have always towered high in various fields of human endeavour. So much has been said by scholars in respect of relevance of African worldview in the quest for national development. This paper posits that the indigenous African education is a factor in development, which however has not been given serious attention in scholarship.  One main area of focus of indigenous education is inculcation of morality and it is provable that there is a link between morality and development. Thus, underdevelopment could be blamed on neglect of African cultural values, which indigenous education promotes. This is not to say that there are no attendant problems in doing things in African ways. The paper shall cover the following key components; introduction, concept of indigenous African education, its relevance to the inculcation of morality and dignity of labour, implications for national development, challenges of modernity, recommendations and conclusion.