ABSTRACT
This chapter’s discussion focuses on the connectivity of the African belief in ancestral cult with eschatology. This focus is explored through a detailed examination of issues in different African communities associated with ancestral cults such as:
The derivation of the belief in ancestors form the general belief in afterlife.
African definitions and explanations of designated community of the dead and qualifications for ancestral “office.”
The impotence and relevance of space and time in the determination of human immortal existence in the spiritual world, particularly in the context of ancestral mutual relationship of veneration (on the side of the living) and functional responsibilities (on the side of the ancestors).
A rational explaining the coherence and sustainability of the link between African ancestral cult and eschatology, particularly as determined by the themes of space and time in human life and afterlife existence.
