REINCARNATION IN IGBO SOCIETY: A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY

Sunny Nzie Agu (PhD)

Abstract


The discuss and facts of reincarnation amongst the natives of African origin can not be over emphasized, such the need for studies. Reincarnation is not only a mystery which Africans themselves cannot reasonably explain, The study of reincarnation in this work will be vast areas in the study of metaphysics if it is been studied from the different philosophical traditions, backgrounds and conceptual schemes in the world. Thus, to make this work to be more focused, it will concentrate on the concepts of reincarnation in the Igbo society or communities. Reincarnation the reincarnating spirit do not destroy the personality of the new born instead the child is seen to possess some attributes of the dead person.


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