The House is on Fire: Towards Engaging Arialusi in Resolving Nigerian Socio-Political Miasma
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2019
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Institute for African Renaissance Studies Education, University of South Africa.
Abstract
Nigerian people in the 21st century are faced with bad governance and
leadership as a result of corruption, instability, senseless killings, insecurity, and
among others. This idea of suffering also has praxis of humanity. Thus, where
people experience evil, retrogression, anti-development and loss are substantially
there undoing. Therefore, this undoing is the product of Arialusi which as an
Edo religious concept means the law of retribution; sowing and reaping. As a
matter of fact, Arialusi means the law of retributive justice; law of nemesis; a
cosmic law of justice which holds that one’s life is determined by the
performance in the previous life that spills to the present and the future. Arialusi
is a human ‘sim’ that imprints itself as a hidden force or potential in one’s life.
This hidden force or potential when activated by an external stimulus or natural
law, produces corresponding effects either good or bad, happiness or suffering,
progress or retrogression. This paper adopted moral, socio-cosmic methods
leading to the fact that much emphasis on materialism and acquisition of wealth than spiritual knowledge are the bane of Nigerian leaders. Arialusi is a neverending
process of life. Therefore, Arialusi is an eternal and immutable law of
nature that has its seat in the soul of every human. No doubt, the payoffs are
gain or loss, comfort or pains, enjoyment or suffering. To this end, the work
postulates that Arialusi is about cause and effect and political activities are also
accounted for by omission or commission. The end, the product of every
political activity has corresponding effect either for the individual or the society.
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Nigeria, Socio-Political, Arialusi, Miasma, House, Fire