EVOLVE V.A.R.C

  The Good Life Paradox A life that goes well for its subject and a life that is deeply meaningful need not coincide, as Matthew Hammerton provocatively observes. Imagine two individuals on their deathbeds. The first enjoys the consolations of affection, success, and fulfillment—a life abundant in comfort and relational warmth. The second, consumed by a relentless battle against injustice, attains extraordinary social transformation at immense personal cost. Which of these lives is better depends profoundly on what “better” denotes. Philosophers have long discerned that the evaluative term good admits divergent interpretations: a life’s moral goodness , its prudential goodness (how well it fares for the one living it), and its existential meaningfulness . These dimensions, though interwoven, often diverge. A virtuous moral life can be prudentially harsh, and a meaningful existence may require sacrifices that undermine personal welfare. Grasping these tensions refines our under...

 THE EMPTY IDEOLOGY.... The Liberal Mirage and Africa’s Quest for Decolonised Thought Postcolonial Africa’s encounter with liberalism remains one of the most paradoxical inheritances of decolonisation. Upon the euphoria of independence, states such as Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Cameroon did not merely inherit arbitrarily drawn borders and brittle institutions; they also assimilated an epistemic architecture — liberalism — whose genealogy was distinctly European. Originating from the crucible of Enlightenment rationalism and bourgeois revolutions, liberalism translated Europe’s historical struggles against ecclesiastical absolutism and monarchic sovereignty into universalist dogma. It advanced a quasi-soteriological faith in individual autonomy, market rationality, and constitutional democracy as the telos of civilisation. Yet the transplantation of this ideology into African polities — whose moral worlds were animated by communalism, relational personhood, and cosmological coh...