Chris O. Akpan
The principle that everything has a cause is very fundamental in all aspects of life to every culture. Both the Buddhist and the traditional African believe that nothing happens by chance. The Buddhist conception of causality, hinged on the theory of ”dependent origination”, appears to be concerned with the human (physical) world with suffering as its prime focus while the traditional African thought does not limit causation to the empirical world but freely blends and relates empirical causation with supernatural causation. This paper in its critical comparison posits that both positions are fraught with some logical and metaphysical difficulties which in turn seem to blur and retard the people’s knowledge of the external world, thus acting as an albatross to scientific development and progress
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