Pinisi Discretion Review Volume 4, Issue 1, September, 2020 Page. 143- 150 ISSN (Print): 2580-1309 and ISSN (Online): 2580-1317 Creative Cultural Synergy: Towards the Africa of the Future Tom Eneji Ogar, Edor John Edor Department of Philosophy, University Of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Email: enejiogar93@gmail.com (Received: May-2020; Reviewed: July-2020; Accepted: July-2020; Avalaible Online: July-2020; Published: September-2020) This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY-NC-4.0 ©2020 by author (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ABSTRACT In this paper, we discussed Creative Cultural Synergy: Towards the Africa of the Future in ensuring an enduring development in a competitive and globalized world. Africa today is far from being a viable continent – as most social institutions that should regulate socio-political life are weak and human instincts predominate individual conduct. As a result, the task of nation building has become a mirage. Rather than see these problems within their larger social and cultural context, people tend to place hope on reforms with narrow economic focus. The issue of the African future in African philosophy is that of how best to achieve freedom and development in Africa without compromising the African identity. Defining the African project today is situated in the cultural confusion generated by the assault on the consciousness of its people. Several narratives have been put forward to explain this malaise. This paper concludes that there is need for a cultural and reconstructive examination as a tool in African philosophy to set up the Africa of the future. A creative cultural synergy using some aspects of the African culture with that of others would guarantee its cultural autonomy without setting apart from others in their quest for development. Textual and content analysis approaches are adopted in this research. Keywords: Africa; culture; cultural heritage. INTRODUCTION It is an obvious fact that Africa has witnessed a shell-burst from foreign cultures over the years. Much of her history is so imprisoned within European settings that some scholars have argued that Africa has no history, save that which is anchored on foreign influence and cultures (Idang 2008). Although some African scholars of various shades have pounced on the above remarks and took to the defense of Africa’s cultural glorious heritage, issues about the African culture have continued to generate attention among intellectuals and stakeholders alike. It has however been argued that in the quest for development, culture could provide a vital anchor, preventing a changing and evolving society from drifting as it provides society with the inherited transmissible code of conduct as both part and function of the total system of ideas, values and belief systems which constitute the content of life of a society. However, culture is