ABSTRACT
The author motivates by the neglect of indigenous African knowledge, most especially indigenous medical knowledge in Nigeria. The work demonstrates that the journey to physical, mental, social and economic-and-enterprise health must follow the reverse order – that is, must start from the village and grow outwards towards the city. Integral healing, which the author also call Pax Africana, biologically and metaphorically starts with nature and community. There is in each society, organization and person a southern relational world of nature and community, an eastern holistic world of culture and spirituality, a northern world of systems, technology and structure and, finally, a western world of enterprise, economics and continuity. Communitalism, originating from the South, demonstrates that an institutionalized model of business and enterprise based on nature, community, spirituality and humanism, integrally so to speak, is a better driver of social and technological innovation in Africa.
