IGWEBUIKE: African Journal of Arts and Humanities

The Universe as created by God has man and other spirits residing in it. Spirits are believed to be possessing and tormenting people and they can only be exorcised by the exorcists. The rate at in which exorcists blossom in carrying out their activities clearly posed a big challenge to doubt the genuine of sources of their power. Thus, the paper is concerned with unraveling a comparative analysis for a reflective rediscovery of genuine sources of power for exorcism in Africa Traditional Religion and Islam. The research made use of comparative, prescriptive and analytic methods. Data were collected from the field through selected interviews and consultation of relevant books. The paper discovered that, exorcists exaggerate their roles and exploit their clients in order to acquire quick material and social firm. They also worsen people’s health due to erroneous examination of non possession elements to means spiritual attacks. There is doubt been cast in most exorcists due to concealment of un- known sources of power, which some of them are fake and cannot be authenticated. There is a problem of the possessed and even exorcists from separating those in good health from those possessed due to nature of different religious interpretation which posed danger in the two faiths. The paper recommends authentic exorcism devoid of exorcists sourcing power from occultic organizations. They should be their brother’s keeper by charging less fee on their patients. There should be collaboration among exorcists exorcising those possessed by evil spirit devoid of religious affiliations.

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