Renascent Africa: Revisiting Zikism(A message for African youths) By Nmachi Jidenma In his book, Renascent Africa, Nnamdi Azikiwe writes of an Africa in renascence, an Africa in rebirth through the drumbeats and palpitations of youths restless and aching for change. Though he wrote his treatise decades ago, his philosophy still runs deep and has astonishing relevance today in this century 21st. Since the book's publication in 1937, somehow, Africa skipped her re-birth and instead, chose the path of the still-born. And somehow, the generations between the start of the Zikist movement and the rubbles of apresent daybroken continent have been sadly conspicuously silent. Zik's exhortation in Renascent Africa was directed to not just the youths of Africa but also to African members of the old guard. In his time, this referred to traditional chiefs and conservative pro-colonial po...
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