ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 fleshes out the larger Nigerian situation within which the homo academicus Nigerianus operates. It addresses the fundamental social formations that are responsible for not only the underdevelopment of the Nigerian state but also the lackluster performance of the Nigerian philosophers. In this chapter, Afolayan addresses the consequences of the vicious cycle that ensures that since academic philosophy has become a passive discipline that just churns out graduates, the Nigerian state seems therefore justified in its educational and active policies that reject philosophy as a meaningful disciplinary intervention in Nigeria’s development dynamics. Thus, a country that recognizes the need for a “philosophy” undergirding its educational system effectively rejects philosophy itself.
