The lines above are excerpts from John Pepper Clark and Wole Soyinka’s poems coincidentally titled “Abiku”. Both poems, as the title of the poems suggest, describes a persona that embodies a child who could have the uncanny power of mastering death.
Despite the modern times’ mesh of Western and traditional religions, there are lots of beliefs that resonate in the hearts of many Africans: the Abiku norm is one of them. The Abiku is believed to be an evil spirit that dies multiple times to reenter the mother’s womb to be reborn again. The spirit is able to do so from a hidden totem that binds the spirit to earth and the family it hunts. So the sacred symbol is used as a compass to navigate back to its precise home each time it returns.
Tracing this concept from the past to the present, change always has a pivotal role to play in the switch that inevitably takes place. Nowadays in modern times, the belief has dwindled paralleled to the strong conviction in the past. Those times can be said to be dark times when man tried to make sense of life which wittingly or otherwise may be related to a lack of understanding of diseases.
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