This book challenges us to take a cursory glance at our
contemporary world, where modern man's scientific and technological
ingenuity has led him to soar thorough the galaxy and made the
heavens part of his domain; and contrast that with his level of
morality today. Open any newspaper or listen to the radio and
television news and you can't help but lament on the appalling
moral depravity and obscene behavior of our contemporary man. With
this intractable moral depravity on the ascendancy, the author
nostalgically reminiscences the upright morality of yesteryears,
and admonishes us to heed Plato's philosophical advice: 'now since
men are by nature acquisitive, jealous, combative, and erotic, how
shall we persuade them to behave themselves? By the policeman's
omnipresent club? {now, AK 47}. It is a brutal method, costly and
irritating. There is a better way, and this is by lending to the
moral requirements of the community. Throughout this book the
author emphasizes the significance of proper moral education in
shaping the character of children, youngsters and even adults, and
reminds us: 'morals are the rules by which society exhorts its
members and associations to behavior consistent with its 'order,
security and growth' {Will & Ariel Durant}. The author noted
that in traditional African societies, the wise elders, like the
ancient Greek philosophers, strongly emphasized the teachability of
moral values and deliberately inculcated them into their
youngsters. The stories in this book are folktales filled with
moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to
the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria,
Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to
Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders successfully utilized
these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral
requirements of their society to insure stability, harmonious
relations, order, security and growth.
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