Incorporating Moral Education in the School Curricula as a Remedy to Moral Depravity in the Contemporary African Society

This work is centred on incorporating moral education in the school curricula as a remedy to moral depravity in the contemporary African society. The society that we live in today is morally depraved such that people behave anyhow they like without a critical reflection of what might be the consequences of their immoral behaviours. Why is it that morality and moral behaviours have been debased in the contemporary African society? The paper found out that people have thrown morality to the dustbin in the sense that society attaches much importance and value to wealth and material things not minding the sources. The upshots of this are killings, lying, cheating, deception, backbiting, moral blackmailing, callous destruction of people’s properties etc. What now can we do to stop all these vices? Here, moral education becomes very imperative so that people will be taught the acceptable standard of behaviour in the society. The paper employed phenomenological method in conducting this research. It established that for moral behaviours to be properly restored to the contemporary African society, hard work, honesty, truthfulness, obedience and courageous acts should be rewarded and indiscriminate conferment of chieftaincy titles on the rich should stop.