Omoluwabi 2.0: A Code of Transformation in 21st Century NigeriaDecember House, 2012 In Omoluwabi 2.0, Adewale Ajadi lays out a new way of organising and transforming, organisations, countries and continents, based on the Yoruba principle of Omoluwabi, updated for the 21st century. There are not many original thinkers who dare to explore new territories with creative mental tools and attentiveness to details and still come up with a reader friendly book. Adewale Ajadis book comes with freshness. Omoluwabi 2.0 is long overdue and it should fill the knowledge gap created by an apparent lack of codification and wide dissemination of imo ijinle (deep knowledge) Kole Odutola: Lecturer at the University of Florida, Author of Diaspora and Imagined Nationality There have been ideas about two publics, the formal and informal worlds in Africa and their contradictory dynamics. Other have framed it as disorder but no one has pointed the way. As it was we were doomed to engineered solutions. Omoluwabi 2.0 comes with a torrent of meaning-making systems in a stream of post modern solutions to the challenges of the 21st century inspired by an abiding creativity in Africa's complexity and history. Sylvester Odio Akhaine, Member of the Guardian Editorial Board |
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Common terms and phrases
21st century achieve adaptive African Akhenaten àmì analysis approach Arochukwu authentic behaviour Blood Diamond capacity captures challenges character choices clusters codes colonial complex systems context continent cooperation create culture deliver dialogue diversity drive dynamics ECOMOG economic effective Ekiti elements elite emerging engagement especially ethnic evolution evolve excellence explore exports failure focus fractal frame framework Gacaca growth grundnorm Hausa hierarchy human Ibadan ideas Igbo Ijaw ilé indigenous individual Indonesia Indonesia and Pakistan informal institutions intellectual interaction Kikuyu Lagos leadership levels lives means million modernisation mòó lò Niger Delta Nigeria Nollywood ojú inú òlàjú Olubadan omolúwàbí ọmọlúwàbí 2.0 organisation Oyo Empire Pakistan paradigm people’s population possibilities potential pre-colonial principles productive relationships responsibility Rwanda sector shaped Sierra Leone social capital society solutions success sustainable things trade tradition transactions transformation truly trust values Westernised wisdom Yoruba