Legend of the Walking Dead: Igbo Mythologies is a journey into the Igbos of Nigeria’s mysteries of life and death. The book draws readers into the Igbo people’s ancient and traditional beliefs about life and death.
There is a fragile line dividing the land of the living and the dead’s land, so thin that spirits from both lands coexist. Sometimes, during the story, it is difficult to differentiate between the living and the dead. Both have bodies; the living existing in their bodies, while the dead exist in (are using) borrowed bodies.
Fifteen-year-old Osondu has disappeared. His mother goes searching for her son and faces the same fate. She, too, goes missing.
The gods are ever-present, in control, and minister to both the living and the dead. This is because the gods minister to the spirits, not the bodies that harbor them. To the gods, the spirits of both the living and the dead are ever alive.
The world of the traditional Igbo society is a world where the dead visit and interact easily with the living. It is also a world in which the living are at the gods’ mercy most of the time.