ABSTRACT
The term communitalism is functionally different, for Adodo, from communalism or indeed communism. Communitalism affirms that some aspects of capitalism, such as individual inventiveness, are worth pursuing and supporting, but such inventiveness must be put at the service of the community, so that both the individual and the community prosper. As a flourishing model of health and business enterprise, then, within a particular local community, in Edo State adjacent to Benin City in Nigeria, Paxherbals is activating the local community towards integral ecological and economic, scientific and cultural development. A flourishing agribusiness that allows all families in Ewu local community to engage in profitable cultivation of foodstuffs, medicinal plants and other cash crops will make the village into an economic hub. The Africa Centre for Integral research and Development (ACIRD), then, is passionate about research, both processually and also substantively, that leads to social, if not also technological, innovation in Africa.
