Abstract

In Yoruba written literature in any field or on any subject, one cannot find the exact word for human will; at most, one can come across related or associated words that carries meanings derivable from the meaning of this important word that denote a significant mental element in human nature. Our position is that the word ‘Ife-Inu’ is the equivalence of the human will. In other words, what is called the human will in Western conception of a person is identified as Ife-Inu in Yoruba worldview on human nature. This claim is what we hope to demonstrate in subsequent pages of this paper