As it stands, YFIBIGO cannot think of the solution to Nigeria's problems in any other way, other than to study, and specifically try to understand, analyze, and synthesize the best of what has been said and written about African problems by the frontier thinkers, present and past. Poverty, the making of the Cabals, Resources Mismanagement, Embezzlement, Looting, Insecurity, Unemployment, Intermittent Youth Uprisings, Armed Banditry, Kidnapping, Terrorism, Incessant Killings, and many more crimes have their root causes that reconstruction would uncover.
Through study, we ascertain in which direction things have shifted, the impact of the changes, and the answers to our questions. Dr. Chancellor Williams has already provided the basis for numerous points of view expressed in the YFIBIGO study. His work – ‘’The Rebirth of African Civilization’’ is our chief source of power that provided the required frame of reference for reconstruction and a necessary backup reference for study of this nature. The founder of YFIBIGO, Chinemerem Daniel Anyaoha, has also incorporated some new materials in a study to keep abreast with the times. YFIBIGO reconstruction comes with perspectives that are nationwide in scope.
We have our scholars and intellectual giants that include Dr. Cheik Anta Diop, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Edward Blyden, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Chancellor Williams, Dr. Cress Welsing, Professor James Small, Dr. Keke Molefi Asante, Professor Adiele Afoigbo, etc., whose writings, lectures, and philosophies we consider. By diligently ascertaining their viewpoints on what Africa must do, what they believe to be true, and the elaborated methods by which such knowledge may be extended to Nigeria, we can build the central framework that is ‘’African’’ to guide our steps towards reconstruction of the Nigerian system. By plainly stating what we have learnt from them, some of our challenging questions and the answers are made known. It is this body of guiding principles that informs our African education and provides the basis for reconstructing Nigeria upon a spiritual, moral basis, and for an economic system that would go a long way to create equality, true independence, self-reliance, brotherhood, and sisterhood.
The most difficult step in any task of reconstruction - education, economy, or social living- is the first step, after which everything falls into shape. YFIBIGO becomes a humble messenger of great frontier thinkers, as we present some details, including propositions that could be considered and worked out for the benefit of the people of Nigeria. We commend Dr. Chancellor Williams, a scholar of high eminence, for regarding it as an important obligation on his part to be somewhat specific, to make his meaning clear on what Africa must do. For aligning our views with Dr. Chancellor, our apology is hereby set forth before various quarters who may convene the idea to attack and outrightly criticize our work, since some of the most important of the programs advanced on the YFIBIGO platform may seem out of step with the normal and the expected. Our stance is such that we act on faith and a sense of mission for the benighted people, improve behavior through knowledge, and intellectually defend our land.
No one approach to reconstructing a society upon a moral basis is enough, as what is important is achieving the desired goal. Since the major position taken by YFIBIGO in this work is reconstruction, our approach is to focus on the necessary campaign to create awareness that would go to reorganize all the fields directly involved in reconstruction – culture, political democracy, economics, and education, as the means to bring about the desired change. We would access other means of getting the information across, sensitizing, disseminating – classrooms, tv, radio, online internet, social media channels, seminars, conferences, workshops, etc., since we are poised with the message to equip the Nigerian youths mentally with the power to propel themselves forward in a positive direction, and to overcome any setback in personal life or as group. YFIBIGO approach, if applied successfully, would position the Nigerian youths to better themselves, and be prepared to face the world, and become more efficient in dealing with topics and anything in the educational processes, or culture of their people that they may have previously taken abashed, or shied away from coping with.
Why do we reconstruct a system? What are the benefits of reconstructing a system? Who can reconstruct a system? How can reconstruction begin? These questions, in addition to the ones cited below, if answered correctly and truthfully, would help eliminate greed, corruption, intermittent youth uprising, armed banditry, thuggery, robbery, organ trafficking, kidnapping, rampant killings, terrorism, vices, and most crimes bedeviling Nigeria.
The idea which underlies and interpenetrates YFIBIGO gives expression and emphasis to the sentiments and aspirations of the African intellectuals, scholars, whom, after all is said and done, we must look up to, to be strong, and to become the fittest instruments for reconstructing the system of this country. For the nature and purpose of reconstruction, YFIBIGO's idea of reconstruction is not drawn strictly from the limited framework of any of the disciplines of sociology, economics, anthropology, or theology; when a matter deals with a sociology topic, it is not stated as such. We have laid our hands here and there to come up with something coherent that everyone may follow and comprehend our purpose and pursuit in the more excellent work of humanity.
We can trace some of the Nigerian youth’s disorderliness, gangs, banditry, delinquency, and multifarious crimes to family disorganization. The absence of knowing the cultural basis and its application in training alludes to present-day family disorganization. YFIBIGO seeks to campaign to rescue from oblivion some of the elements of ‘’the Pre-literate African education’’ that were vital in the past, re-use them in reconstruction, and solve many of the modern-day problems. Dr. Chancellor stated that the cultural basis for reconstructing Nigeria and the rest of Africa may be even clearer if we study the pre-colonial African preliterate educational system for some of the definite systems of education.