The African Personality: Lubrication for Liberation posits the inevitability of conflict in all relationships and proposes that preparing for conflict in advance – as we would prepare for rain or any other inevitable event – renders conflict more manageable. A conflict management protocol, a productive spiritual-affective orientation and specific communication ingredients are explored as means to minimize antecedent conflict-causing and conflict-exacerbating friction.
The author suggests: “Molding a personality equipped with conflict resolution skills and the general ability to share, cooperate, act collectively and respond to the needs of others is stressed in the true African curriculum because unless egos, insecurities and petty conflict can be ‘checked at the door,’ there is little hope for real progress toward freedom for our people.” (39 pages)
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