In Chinua Achebe’s internationally influential novel, "Things Fall Apart", names such as Onwumbiko (Death, I implore you), Ozoemena (May it not happen again), Onwuma (Death may please himself), speak to the Igbo cosmology of recurrence or reincarnation, in particular, spirit children or Ogbanje, who are destined to die prematurely and come back to the same […]