Culture in a layman's understanding, simply means a way of life. It is
arts, customs and habits which characterise a particular society or nation.
Every community, society or nation has a peculiar culture with attached values
to the lives and existence of such people. Americans for instance have their
own uniqueness in culture just like the Europeans, Asians and of course
Africans.
But it is realistically disturbing to note that the peculiarity of the
African culture has been bastardized, helplessly and shamelessly relegating the
black race to the background. The advent of westernisation which came into the
African continent with colonialism, became the prelude to the abysmal collapse
of the once treasured culture of Africa. This regrettably, made Africans
subservient to the colonial overlords whose culture must be ridiculed,
discountenanced and replaced with Western ways of life.
Superficially, it does appear to the tainted mind that such a
devastating swap stands to benefit the indigenous people of Africa but the
truth remains that such an exchange has brought into the continent, some
measures of collateral damages than good. Many short-sighted and grossly
misinformed individuals hide under this anomaly to yet promote and support the
evil trend. This must not be allowed no matter the coloration. There exist
numerous acts which the progenitors of the African continent shied away from
because their culture naturally abhors such. But since the culture of Africa
was surreptitiously swapped with that of the whites, many are presumably
comfortable committing heinous crimes due to the absence of African
natural/cultural measures to checkmate and bring to the bearest minimum, the
various nefarious activities within the African society.
The ancestors according to traditionalists are said to be angry with the
rate at which the African culture was being relegated and replaced with
reckless abandon, with the slavish embrace of alien cultures which have
immensely contributed to the retrogressive turn of events in virtually all
ramifications within the continent.
The few who conscientiously practice the African culture are widely
adjudged evil perpetrators that deserve banishment from their respective
localities. This is premised on the belief that the younger generations were
deceived to see such as institutionalised evil that must be jettisoned, not
knowing that evil and culture are two parallel differences. Culture abhors all
evils and inventors/peddlers/supporters of such in any given society.
The nation of Biafra which is irrefutably the hope and eyes of Africa,
was seemingly subjugated and criminally expunged from the world map through
orchestrated annihilation policies of the Nigerian government and its allies
over the years. After the horrendous genocidal onslaught carried out
against Biafrans between 1967 and 1970, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
worldwide, ably led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, emerged with the mandate of resolutely
fighting for the freedom of Biafrans and Biafra, the only hope of the African
continent.
All indigenous Africans, lovers of freedom globally, men/women of
goodwill and conscience, must stand up to support the ongoing agitation as
being courageously championed by the IPOB, for the unfettered restoration of
the sovereign nation of Biafra which has been under the occupational government
of contrapted Nigeria. This forced/false union of the Arewas, Oduduwas and
Biafrans, has for many generations completely refused to work. Therefore,
trying in this 21st century to maintain the status quo is absolutely an
exercise in futility.
Written by:
Ogeh Friday Igiri
For: Ebonyi State Media
Published by:
Chibuike John Nebeokike
For: Ebonyi State Media
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