© 2023 The Author(s). Published and Maintained by Noyam Journals. This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS) ISSN – Online 2720-7722 | Print 2821-8949 Volume 4 Issue 5 - May 2023 pp 585-595 Available online at: https://noyam.org/journals/ehass/ DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2023458 Eschatology in African Traditional Religion and African Christianity: Implications for Biblical and Theological Scholarship in Africa Edward Agboada 1 1 Department of Religious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi – Ghana. INTRODUCTION The place of Africa in the development of relevant theological and Christological praxis that strengthens theology, Christology and biblical scholarship in Africa, using the tools and resources of the African context since the turn of the 21 st century and the seismic southward shift in the centre of gravity of global Christianity has engendered lots of implications. 1 Scholars like Mbiti, Olupona, Ukpong, Nyamiti, Bolaji, Nyang, Gyekye, and Dickson and others like Bediako, Mugambi, Mulago, Gutiérrez and, Wa Thiong'o have extensively explained its relevance. Hitherto, its legitimacy and validity had been rejected by the dominant Western hegemonic paradigm, subjected to polemical 1 Jesse N. K. Mugambi, Christianity and the African Cultural Heritage (Nairobi: Acton Publications, 2005), 516–42. ABSTRACT African traditional religion has many concepts that present alternative and a variety of contexts for Christianity, theology and biblical scholarship in Africa which can also provide appropriate answers to the many questions of African Christians. One of such concepts is eschatology. Eschatology in African traditional religions present deep insight into the philosophies of Africa’s indigenous cosmology and perspectives about life, death, and the hereafter. This article attempts to examine the concept of eschatology in Christian theology and explain the same within the African traditional and religious hermeneutical framework to decipher what implications can be derived for Christianity, theology and biblical scholarship in Africa and beyond. To achieve this the article reviewed various literature on the concept of eschatology within Christianity and African Traditional Religion (ATR). In this way, the article was able to compare the theology of escatology in Christianity and African Traditional Religion. The article looked at concepts such as time, death, end time, judgement, etc in both Christianity and ATR to discover their similarities and differences. The study revealed that the quintessential essence of African spirituality and cosmology is summed up in the concept of life as a cycle (unending); a person is born, grows to become a full member of the family, dies and gets admitted into the world of the ancestors. Even in death, life does not end, it continues actively and vibrantly in the world of the ancestors. This ideology evokes a kind of consciousness of life as a spiritual journey. Keywords: Eschatology, Christology, Ancestor, Christianity, Theology, Religion Correspondence Edward Agboada Email: agboadaedwards@gmail.com Publication History Received 28 th January, 2023 Accepted 26 th April, 2023 Published online 12 th May, 2023