ABSTRACT

Any society irrespective of its cultural and traditional aesthetics, must succumb to the religious proceedings that guides and directs the affairs of man on earth, this is what this study will investigate. The topic Man’s Destiny and The African Ritual portrays the African worldview and the Yoruba society in particular. The mythic and ritual proceedings of the Yoruba world as well as the Yoruba mythology of time and unity will be examined. Man as a central being in the universe, will be viewed in relation to his psyche. The study focuses on the assessable nature of will and the irreversible nature of fate and destiny in the African cosmology. The concept of salvation and the carrier motif will be explored in the course of the study. These points are aptly portrayed in Ola Rotimi’s Gods Are Not To Blame The and Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed.