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African traditional judicial system, including those on judgment enactment on royal lineage,especially in chaotic situations, often evokes bias. Existing studies on traditional judicial system, largely from philosophy, religious studies and legal fields, have focused rather on objective and positive stance but have not accounted for the seemingly bias demeanor of Ifaespecially in cases relating to royal descents, which would have facilitated the background of corrupt practices and judgments in the Nigerian judicial system. This study, therefore, investigates avoidance as a pragmatic strategy of bias inKunleAfolayan’sOctober 1. The study adopted Jacobson’s Eloquence Silence andMey’sPragmeme to investigate instantiation of meanings with reference to cultural relativism. At a more general level, this paper suggests that the pragmatic agenda can be purposefully broadened to investigate the root cause of corruption in the Nigerian judicial context. It argues that avoidance as a strategy deployed by Ifaworshippers is induced in order to regard the kingship who are given honour in the African worship. Negotiation of avoidance as a contextual trigger of African belief and norm is anchored on the Nigerian rule of law necessitating a renegotiation of an existing recommendation of law by Ifa, while the analysis shows that Ifa chronicles, an enshrined rule of law in the African cosmology can be re-negotiated to accommodate certain respected deities/man. The priest’s strategy of silence or avoidance strategy in October 1 proves useful in locating agency and responsibility in Ifaverdict and consequently instituting a more effective judicial system in the Nigerian context. The study reveals Ifa’sbias and nongenerality in pronouncing judgment and subsequently punishment, which may generate a complex and precipitate many hazards in the African judicial system.

Bias in African Traditional Judicial System: A Pragmatic Study of Silence in Kunle Afolayan’s October 1st