ABIKU [PREDESTINED TO DEATH] (THE EXERTION OF SICKLE CELL ANEMIA) A MANUSCRIPT BY FOLASAYO AWODUMILA INTRODUCTION In Africa, particularly, in the Nigerian tradition, chaotic interpretation and reinterpretation takes place regarding the concept of ABIKU ( A Yoruba name given to a child who keeps enacting a recurring cycle of death and rebirth. Over the centuries, the Abiku mythology has seen to the fate of thousands, if not millions of children who and seemingly are reborn through the same mother in Yoruba land. The myth is of a very strong form of unmitigating and vengeful form of reincarnation. In this case a particular child actively brings him or herself to be born into the same family and by the same mother, usually it is a female child, when this cycle continues for an unbearable length of time, the child is given a mark so that they are sure that it is this same child. It is found out that when this Child dies and reincarnated another time, it often returns with the mutilated