Life and Meaninglessness from the Perspective of Ìwà

After a thorough engagement with reality from the African purview. After a careful analysis of how the African past is distorted through history and logic which in turn affects the African’s articulation of reality. A paradox which this book considers before it comes to a close in this chapter is whether life is meaningful at all. In the first place, I contend that the question of life’s meaningfulness or meaninglessness cannot be a conclusive subject. As humans, not only do we possess fallible faculties but are also primordially defect to arrive at a univocal measure for life’s meaning. After considering various African perspectives concerning the meaning of life, I settle for neutral nihilismneutral nihilism as I contend that it is one thing to be indifferent about the realization that ultimately life has no meaning (nihilism) from the human perspective compare to taking an indifferent position about life itself. I tender that the former is a better disposition.