Abstract
Among the Yorùbá people of West Africa there are certain ideas explicit in the interaction of different element which in turn act as an instrument of social change and control. With which different cultural beliefs are held. Among these beliefs is destiny which connotes the idea of person among the Yorùbá through the conception of orí, or àyànmọ́ understood by them as bearer of personality and destiny. In this study the epistemological representation of destiny stance of Ifá corpus is employ to drive home a rational belief in àyànmọ́ and argue that the concept is epistemological with positive implication to fill the gap created by some African scholars who have argued that orí in Yorùbá only signifies nothing other than the literary meaning. The study have been able to reveal in very simple unambiguous language Ifá concept of destiny as Yorùbá (African) epistemological system orí-àyànmọ́ as bearer of personality and anchor of destiny.
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