Moral Values in the Indigenous African Education: Implications for Community Development in Nigeria

The paper critically examines value crisis and a high level of moral decadence inherent in Nigerian nation life. The paper conceptualizes human development as the sustained enhancement of the cognitive, psycho motor, affective and other competencies of individuals and groups to increase productivity. It sees education, especially African education as central in seeking to achieve this. It clarifies the concept of moral values and others and is skeptical about their functionality in contemporary human capacity development efforts in the country. A number of values are identified and recommended for inclusion in the curricular of our schools, primary through tertiary with a very strong belief in complete value reorientation for better communities growth in Nigeria.