ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author embarked upon his work to see if his life experiences and challenges could be harnessed to address Okoth-Ogendo's challenges and ended up discovering that to adequately address them required an even larger canvas than the one that Okoth-Ogendo had presented his challenge from, the vast continent of Africa. This approach to these wicked valuation problems has been at pains to emphasise that exclusively reductionistic and positivistic approaches are utterly inadequate to that task. As the cited scholars have stressed, when it comes to these wicked valuation problems, simplex minds cannot cope, and simplex vocabularies are not up to the task either. The author concludes that trans-disciplinary communities of inquiry and practice, whether or not they are informed by the trans-disciplinary imagination, will not suffice to resolve North, south, east and west (NSEW) wicked valuation problems as such.
