Abstract: This article aims to expound our ideas and thought processes toward the opinion that modern day civilization / trends has presented a form of challenge as regards to the continuation and development of the Nigerian Cultural & traditional society. It works to expose our minds to the insecurities surrounding our culture in this contemporary society and also looks at various aspects of our lives, family and society, in an attempt to seek out their roles and recommendations. If those be well adapted to, will create an envisioned- well thriven cultural society.
Keywords: Modern, Culture, Persistence, Civilization, Colonialism, Future and Development.
I love my Culture; I love it so much. I like the hazy, dusty air that slaps my face on the way to my Town, I love the symphonies and words reflecting in my mind every time I see a brown rusted roof, I love the steep slow turn, the bragging bus driver and the little white cars flaunting their presence from side to side. I love all these things very much. They bring some sort of ethnicity to my veins. I can literally feel at home. I also like the top of the world feeling I get when reading a 1968 journal and how the sculptures and stories of Oduduwa, Moremi & all my heroic ancestral deities amaze, they seem more real to
31 me than the Avengers or Power Rangers. The heroism hidden behind their mysteriousness really baffle me. The pious adventures these deities went through seem more logical, spontaneous to me than any other teenage Superhero, but I agree this sort of“ mystic ideology” would not be the same for every teenage mind wandering out there, not the same for those near nescient souls that cannot identify with their origin, an origin that identifies with their Culture, the culture that defines their societal representation & values, that wraps them in the palm leaves of identity security & the identity that places them on the footstool of reason, etiquette & vivid instilled morals.
Persistence; not a thing of change, is an unwavering and a stern resolution towards something. This word can be fixated on living things, or an action verb which can be more inclined to a breathing identity, but cultures are breathing, and we can identify with them, so can we call them persistent in the contemporary world we live now? Ask yourself; ask me; I’ ll give you my answer.