DESECRATION OF TRADITIONAL SYMBOLISM AND ROYALTY IN NIGERIA: A CULTURAL CRISIS

By: EKE Obinna F. (National Commission for Museums and Monuments) 

Abstract 

This paper explores the growing desecration of traditional symbolism and royalty in Nigeria, identifying it as a critical cultural crisis with deep social, political, and psychological implications. Drawing upon historical contexts, contemporary practices, and sociocultural analysis, the paper examines how political interference, commercialization, modernization, and generational disconnection have eroded the sanctity and authority of Nigeria’s traditional institutions. The essay advocates for policy reform, cultural re-education, and the restoration of indigenous value systems as necessary steps toward reversing this cultural decline.

NATURAL ENDOWMENTS OF PLATEAU STATE

TAPPING INTO GOD'S LIMITLESS BLESSINGS IN CULTURE

School Children doing their best to learn and understand their heritage, traditions and culture, celebrate and promote them, aware as a matter of fact that nature in its infinite mercy has richly endowed their land with very captivating, eye popping and enviable heritage that include historical sites and locations, culture, animals and food, arts and crafts, custumes and architectural works... 

ART WORKS AND THE MESSAGE THEY BEAR

The Osun Priest

By Nnabugwu Chizoba

Dear reader, it is a fact that you may not know what the object in the picture actually means in terms of what it indeed represents, the message it bears or carries, as well as the source of the message, and as a matter of fact who the real targets of the message are, but one thing is sure, you know what art works are when you see them. 

FORMERLY CATERING REST PLACE (CRP) AND LATER PLATEAU STATE HOTEL.. WORK IS ON-GOING

NCHOROKOTO: MY REFLECTION ON THE BEAUTIFUL GAME WE PLAYED GROWING UP

Nchorokoto

By Nnabugwu Chizoba

Nchorokoto, often called by its short form “Ncho” is a game I grew up to meet, love and played regularly, growing up as a child in my beautiful village of Ndi-Agwala, Echiele Otampa, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia State, South East, Nigeria. 

THE AFIZERE NATION: CREATING WEALTH, HARNESSING THE BEAUTY WITHIN

The Jarawa Dancers

 

By Nnabugwu Chizoba

A common saying of my people of Isuikwuato, in Abia state is here para-phrased: The neglected one does not neglect himself or herself. Translated to my Mother tongue, it reads, "Onye ajuru aju aduwu aju onwoya".