A meta-empirical discourse on the concept of pure and disembodied spirits in African metaphysics

Abstract

The primary and underlining reality in traditional African metaphysics is a sort of coalesce between the material and the spiritual realm. In traditional African metaphysics, there exist a sort of holism and an ontological continuum in their understanding and interpretation of reality. The nexus between these two realms in African metaphysics is made concrete through the activities of various kinds of spirits. These spirits are the players in the relationship between the empirical and the meta-empirical world. Fortunately, this relationship has from time remained a major source of socio-political and moral order in the traditional African society. Flowing from the astonishing role of this existential phenomenon, this paper attempts a meta-empirical analysis of the nature and role of these spirits so as to expose the onti-ontological status of the dynamism inherent in the relationship that exists between them.