“Bones in the Wrong Soil”: An Idiomatic Metaphour for Reflecting on the African Psychology of Death and the Afterlife
International Journal of Social Science Research and Review July 11, 2026 Augustine Nwoye
In his book, African Religions and Philosophy, Professor John S. Mbiti boldly affirms that in Africa people die only in body and not in spirit. In making such a generalized claim about Africans and their notions of death and the afterlife Mbiti appears to suggest the implication that in Africa people die only to continue living, everything being equal, as ancestors or members of the...