IGHODARO OGHOGHO BLESSING

In African traditional thought, human destiny is one of the intriguing and difficult areas of discourse in contemporary African philosophy. Any discussion on the subject has to deal either in part or in general with the Supreme Being, ancestors, the nature of our “being” in the primordial existence, our existence on earth, our successes and failures, freewill and determinism and moral responsibility. Destiny or fate (both used interchangeably) is a phenomenon that cut across almost all religious tradition and philosophy. The concept of destiny is commonly used to refer to a fixed order of things established by Divine decree, which no one, however Pius or powerful, could alter Hence, when St Thomas Aquinas disclosed that everything, however insignificant, must have a purpose, an idea derived from Aristotle, he was in effort raising the status of fate to a level of philosophical inquiry. The types of determinism include biological, psychological, religious, climate, cultural, economic, and geographic determinism.