A case for Igbo customs and values

                                             Written By R M Odegbo

It is fairly evident that Igbo customs and values are on the highway to extinction. Their fleeting existence, already stark, shows very slim chance of surviving the ferocious erosion of modernity. Sadly, very little effort is being made by the people to forestall the progressive decline. Everybody, it would seem, acquiesces to the decay.   

From the hallowed to the mundane - nothing is spared the buffet of the cruel fate. Coronation, title-taking, burial ceremony, marriage ceremony, breaking of kola nut to the least of these customs and values has lost the touch of tradition. All are now in acute struggle against eroding influences that appear decided to lay them waste. Nobody is sure where the development is headed, but it certainly does not lead to any cultural flourish.

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