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It is a perennial duty of philosophers especially African Philosophers themselves to delve deep into many of the African traditional concepts. The aim, therefore, is to critically evaluate and re-evaluate them as to make them more scientific and validating the truth contains in those concepts. Man in every era has been hunted by the terrifying possibility of total extinction as he lives in a constant presence of the inevitability of death. Hence, the Igbo concept of reincarnation project a confluence of the idea of birth, death, soul, physical world and the spiritual world vis-a-vis their interdependence as well as the desirousness of an Igbo African man to make his relationship with both the living community and the ancestral community permanent. This idea is grounded on the African concept of the inseparability of the spiritual and the material worlds. Hence, given the obvious controversies accompanying the notion of reincarnation in Igbo-African Cosmo-ontological framework, the writer articulated in this paper a philosophical appraisal of reincarnation from Igbo onto-philosophical purview. The write in order to achieve this project, employed the method of philosophical appraisal. By the time the work is accomplished, it is hoped to have realized its aim of establishing that several theories about man and nature of the universe which were once held to be established truths have today been discarded on account of being either inadequate or no longer tenable or out-rightly misleading.