International Journal of Philosophy 2019; 7(4): 141-150 http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ijp doi: 10.11648/j.ijp.20190704.12 ISSN: 2330-7439 (Print); ISSN: 2330-7455 (Online) A Philosophical Perspective of Annang Values Education and Its Implication for the Creation of a New Technological Africa Lambert Peter Ukanga 1 , Eseohe Glory Okoedion 2 , Udom Martins Solomon 1 1 Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria 2 Department of Foreign Languages and Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Email address: To cite this article: Lambert Peter Ukanga, Eseohe Glory Okoedion, Udom Martins Solomon. A Philosophical Perspective of Annang Values Education and Its Implication for the Creation of a New Technological Africa. International Journal of Philosophy. Special Issue: Towards the Creation of Technological African: The Imperative of a “New Philosophy”. Vol. 7, No. 4, 2019, pp. 141-150. doi: 10.11648/j.ijp.20190704.12 Received: September 24, 2019; Accepted: October 22, 2019; Published: November 5, 2019 Abstract: This work presents the philosophical in-depth of Annang values education and its implication for the creation of a new technological Africa. Thus, the problem of how Annang values education can develop and activate mental prowess for creativity, sustainable development and provide standard values for future African civilization, becomes imperative in this era of perplexed identity. Various attempts at technological development in traditional Africa have been based on the notion of technological transfer, which is inimical to the traditional African growth and development. Indeed, to foster a new technological development for Africa through Annang values education, the work utilizes primary sources while deploying Egbeke Aja’s notion of a philosophy of education with these basic elements: New Naturalism, New Holism, and New Immanentism; that would aid in creating a new technological Africa. The work found out that, for Africa to control their technology, it must sieve out those traditional African authentic values in the present harmonious civilization and be more concern with the value based curriculum that imbued the metaphysics of the people it meant to serve. As this will help in discovering techniques and constructing guidelines on how to deal with the problems created for Africa by the existential evolution. Keywords: Values, Education, Technology, Technological Africa 1. Introduction Once upon a time, I attended an opening ceremony of China Town by the Chinese in Bellville, Cape Town South Africa. The experience I gathered there instigates these pertinent questions. Do you know why technology is fast growing in Asian countries, like Indonesia, Malaysia, India and China etc? And why they lived in harmony with their technology? This is because their educational systems that propel their technologies are through means and instruments which are substantially rooted in their cultural values and beliefs. Indeed, the question; how can we develop a system of education that harness our current predicament through values education which will help to imbued African metaphysics and curriculum that suit Africa becomes imperative. Indeed, the task to restore and to affirm the African identity and to give it a place within the global community became the major pre-occupation in Africa/Nigeria. We can also begin to have them by systematic mental reorientation, values re-acculturation and the lionization of a virile mindset. Most Nigerians for instance, do not uphold the intrinsic beauty and virtues of integrity in our values any longer. In line with the forgoing, Anthony Areji asserts that: The place of culture and values in the life of a people is very crucial. It is culture, values and history that determine and shape the identity and philosophy of a people. It is also culture, values and history that distinguish a people from the others. This distinguishes gives rise to cultural plurality and cultural peculiarity. Consequently, once people’s culture, values and history are in quagmire or at the cross road, the identity of such a people is not only in quandary but also indefinable. Making examples to the Igbos, he said, they are neither truly Igbos nor Western. [1]