A Critique of Efik Concept of Re-Incarnation

Abstract

Among the departmentalized worlds of philosophy, reality has no universalized acceptable explanation. Both the Western and the Eastern worlds explain reality differently. So is Africa, and in particular Efik people of Africa. In order to explain reality as it relates to the process of human existence, they brought in the concept of re-incarnation. Re-incarnation as a belief system appears to have an aim but its process is beyond scientific explanation and logical reasoning. This work observes that though the belief in re-incarnation tends to control some societal ills among the Efik people in the past, in this era of enlightenment, there are reliable valid claims that support creation and human existence than re-incarnation.

LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 8(1), 297-305, 2011