A REVIEW OF PROF. KANU‟S “IGWEBUIKE AND BEING IN IGBO ONTOLOGY”

Abstract

The paper published in January 2019 in IGWEBUIKE: An African Journal of Arts and Humanities is a work of great reminiscence. Though a journal paper, it delved into a much needed contemporary issue with regard to the prospect in African Philosophy that has come to stay. The question of being as what is or that which exists is very central and fundamental in Igbo Ontology and it‘s very proper to the area of Metaphysics. Igbo Ontology is simply Igbo being. Ontology, therefore, studies the structure, meaning and principle of whatever is in so far as it exists. Metaphysics, however, studies and investigates the network as well as the nexus of interrelatedness of realities as such in their deepest ontological sense. From the verb to be, a kind of activity the nomenclature being presents itself as something knowable.