PRACTICE WITHOUT THOUGHT IS BLIND|CONSCIENCISM
PRACTICE without thought is blind; thought without practice is empty. The
three segments of African society which I specified in the last chapter, the
traditional, the Western, and the Islamic, co-exist uneasily; the principles
animating them are often in conflict with one another. I have in illustration
tried to show how the principles which inform capitalism are in conflict
with the socialist egalitarianism of the traditional African society.
What is to be done then? I have stressed that the two other segments, in
order to be rightly seen, must be accommodated only as experiences of the
traditional African society. If we fail to do this our society will be racked by
the most malignant schizophrenia