International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research (IJAMR)
  Year: 2020 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 7 | Page No.: 66-73
African Indigenous Religions as Clinical Diagnosis and Mechanical Curative Remedy for Monstrous Truth, Human Dignity and Justice System in Nigeria: Igbo and Okulosho Traditional Societies as a Paradigm
Obiwuru Chidera Rex and Valentine Adetayo Inagbor

Abstract:
This paper addresses the perennial problem affecting morality and the political and socio-economic systems in Nigeria. A society where truth is perceived as a far distance horizon and acidulous substance, human dignity is trampled upon and justice is scuttled and jostled with, be rest assured that anarchy is very much eminent in such a society. It is discovered in this paper that Nigeria is in the state of moral precipice and jeopardy presently because of the neglect for truth, disregard for the sanctity of human life and perversion of justice. It observed too that the common man on the street is wallowing in melancholic poverty because of the injustice in the land like the Biblical Amos' society. As it stands now without a recourse to African indigenous religions to remedy the present situation we are navigating in, Nigeria may be engulfed with an endless revolution or be in a state of Biblical Armageddon for a long period of time. In Igbo and Okulosho traditional societies where African indigenous religions held sway, truth was sacrosanct, and human life considered as a gift from the Supreme Being (God), which must be protected by the entire society, hence the issue of shedding of blood, murder, abortion and suicide were seen as abominable acts and offence against the Supreme Being and the deities of the land. This paper therefore recommends that for the restoration of morality to the Nigerian society, African indigenous religions should be given a chance to function while we reshape some of its practices that may not be in tandem with established ethos in a civilized world on how best religion should be practiced for the benefit of the entire human race. For a meaningful research of this nature, we are going to adopt a historical-phenomenological methodology.