Pacifying Public Administration As A Discipline To Infuse Africanindigenous Administrative Practices

Public administration, both as an academic discipline and as a field of practice, has not only side-lined but equally rejectedattempts at infusing African administrative practices, deemed as primitive and non-scientific. As a result, Africantraditions, cultures and practices have been unable to provide solutions toAfrican quandaries. One of the main reasons for this dilemma is that public administration is grounded on such theories as the political administrative dichotomy. The tenants of this theoryas reflected in Woodrow Wilson’s1887 essay"The Study of Administration" is defined boundaries of public administration and assertion of the normative relationship between elected officials and administrators in a democratic societywhich shaped Public Administration as a discipline and practice throughout the world including Africa.African societies created indigenous administrative systems within their different cultural contexts to manage their own affairsbut these wereside-linedby in favour of the Greek-Roman public administration accumulations. Based on the aforementioned, this paper takes an eccentric approach to smooth out this discourse in view of Afrocentricity. The conceptual nature of the study is supported by a survey of the relevant literature from a range of sources, such as government regulations, media excepts, and scholarly works