THE CENTRALITY OF MAN IN AFRICAN COSMOGONIC ORDER
Abstract
Repetitions are often said to be for emphasis, especially in situations of seeming nefarious neglect. In contemporary religiosity history, humans seem relegated to divine-related cosmogonies, especially in Africa. A gap to the point that robots take over human positions like in rituals and worship chiefly, against mankind’s central connection in cosmogonies or rather religious history. Recallable, most African mystical religious traditions were declared idolatrous at the inception of some missionary religions which affected cosmogony, the history of the cosmos. This understandably involves the story of creation or origin of the world and the place of humans in it according to the African religious concept. The divine controls the physical no doubt but without worshippers or humans, certain gods if not all would go extinct. This warrants a 21st-century reminiscence of the centrality of man at least in the African cosmogonic order. This qualitative research, with a phenomenological approach same time multi-dimensional as allowing historio-comparative analysis, advocates the enculturation, or ‘africanisation’ of all religions. So to give more cognizance to African religious arts. Enthroning thus, right information and understanding otherwise socio-religio-reasonable reasoning for a more progressive society. Of all the wealth the world possesses, the most decisive and important is the people. This research guided by the functionalism theoretical framework emphasizes that cosmogony remains a source of social solidarity and cohesion if it provides succour and functional unity. So, it recommended that non-inimical thoughts serving humanity some good be simply tolerated for good services to society conclusively.