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An analysis of human destiny in Yoruba metaphysics, examining the tripartite taxonomy of destiny, the role of human striving and moral character, and how self-inflicted ruin complicates fatalism.
Yoruba destiny can be worked on. Sacrifice, effort and character all act on it, and the existence of an entire religious economy built to do exactly that is itself the strongest evidence against reading this tradition as fatalistic.