costumes constitutes significant proportion of any culture, thus caution should be taken on how
they are handled or introduced to the people, else in the future, our cultural patrimony may be
floating away.
Typically, in the past, in an African society, an erring child would be reprimanded, vacuous youth
rewarded, reprimanded or corrected according to whatever comeuppance the “elder” deemed fit,
no one defended a wrong act because a relative was in malady/chaos, he/she was reprimanded
in accordance to the invisible societal constitution tying them together. Looking at our culture in
the form of human sustainability and “persistence”, we could come to a conclusion that she has
not thrived so well. Perceptions and conclusions have been drawn from the innovative nature of
change, but in as much as we have conserved our culture, change would not come as a way of
displacing this well sought values and traditions.
We seem to think our mode of dressing, hairstyles, language can be westernized & exemplified,
but a sincere opinion would be to thrive in the crudity of Africa, Nigeria itself. Beauty lies in the
eyes of the beholder, be the holder. Hold your Heritage fir!
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