AMAMIHE Journal of Applied Philosophy

It is generally taken for granted that human actions are anchored on their thinking system and subsequently determine the way they live. In other words, the way a group of people think and act tend to be determined the way they live their lives on their daily basis. It is against this backdrop that the paper argues that some practices such as African humanism, African kinship systems, African brotherhood, communalism, and negative ones such as tribalism, exploitation, assaults, segregation, embezzlement of public funds, corruption, manipulation, nepotism, and the sort are common place. This paper attempts to establish that that these behaviours are embedded in the ontology of the people. It tries to bring the issues to the fore by studying the Igala ontology which serves as a lens through which the study and the discourse are unravelled. It goes to discuss the influence of the Igala ontology on their ways of life and it relations with the thought systems enunciated above. In the process, it examines basic tenets of the Igala ontology before proceeding to trace the roots and development of the people?s ontology and how they have continuously influenced the way the people live, think and act. It is hermeneutical in nature, critical in approach and expository in outlook. It is discussed: introduction, Clarification of concepts, Igala ontology, social dimension of man in Igala ontology, evaluation and conclusion.

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