Omoluabi: Self Actualization and Communal Responsiblity

Just by reading the title for this weeks lecture gave me an idea of what would be covered in class. "Self Actualization and Communal Responsibility", is deep to one's own definition and personal feelings. Personally, it means to achieve one's full potential.Further more it's not always one person that's responsible but something the entire community has to do together. The lecture was broken down in different categories to help answer the research question,"How have scholars across the various fields of study advanced and transformed academic knowledge related to enduring problems of the human condition".
One of the things that was discussed was Ijuba, meaning homage. My understanding from this was that you have to give back or give honor to the ones before us and the ones after to keep traditions alive. One of the things that people forget about when they become successful is where they come from. Some times we get so caught up in our personal lives and forget about what we left behind. Its our responsibility to never forget because if we don't keep our "homage" alive, who will? That's where the title plays part in the lecture. Omoluabi, tells us our duties. We all know that we shoud be people of character who are disciplined to self improving. If we hold ourselves up to a certain standard our peers will began to gain the respect for us. We should use our wisdom and spread it through our communities so that they can gain knowledge from our eduacation. With that being said we should never get to caught up in ourselves because others need help too.
Another thing that Dr. Gbadegesin mentioned was acknowledging the human condition. What fell under this was racism and poverty. Racism and poverty are two things that we deal with daily. Dr. G mentioned that whites say that we as Africans don't have any history but what they didn't realize is that you have to have history before you can write it. So first thing is that we have to go through different situations until it can be apart of our history.
Dr.G and Dr.Carr's lecture relates because each gives us ideas about the research question. Each lecture feeds off each other giving us a better understanding in how to answer the question. The lecture for this week gave us an understanding for useful learning. I think we should all play apart in our society to be enthused to learn and maintain the developement of our society.