SACRIFICE IN AFRICAN ONTOLOGY AND THE ISSUE OF GLOBALIZATION

Abstract

A cursory glance at the developments of studies in the area of globalization, especially in relation to Africa and the rest of the Third World, reveal a couple of changes taking place in virtually every dimension of life. Gradually reality is moving towards unification as barriers are broken down- making the world a global village on a global cosmopolitan conference table. In the midst of these changes driven by globalization, the substances of some realities have remained unchanged. This paper has studied the issue of sacrifice in African ontology to see how much of this religio-cultural phenomenon has been altered by the wave of globalization. In this study, the phenomenological method of research was adopted for the collection and analysis of data. It finally submits that, owing to the fundamental place that sacrifice occupies in the African world, many Africans once in a while, when the storm of life hits, find their way to traditional priests for the offering of traditional sacrifices of kola nut, fowl, goat, etc., in search of solutions to their problems. This practice has not been undermined by the expansion of Christianity in Africa.