Category: Culture
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Nri Civilization occasioned a medieval Igbo institution, located in the colonial Awka division. The town of Nri was hypothesized by A.G. Leonard, British royal officer in 1902 as the fountainhead from which all the other clans of Igbo, eastern Nigeria’s tribe of the greatest number, sprung. The culture of Nri, as stated by Onwuejeogwu in…
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Dada Adeshigbin was a 19th Century townsman and one of the principal founders of the African Bethel Church. Dada Adeshigbin was born in Owu in 1865. Hardly anything is known of his early life except that he was educated at the Breadfruit School, Lagos and later he was apprenticed to a famous tailor of his…
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Dynamism, in the context of this article is taken as the phenomenon of continuous change, activity, and progress. Several concepts have been proposed for the academic understanding of dynamism, and the lack of generalization has hindered research on the subject. Soyinka believes the African world-view is not stagnant; that there is in it, a continuing…
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Atlantis is the fictional ancient civilization that became submerged under the ocean in the Greek philosopher, Plato’s dialogue, the “Timaeus” and the “Critias,” written about 330 B.C. Although the movement of the earth’s lithosphere, as described in the plate tectonic theory precludes the possibility of a lost continent in the recent geological past, Leo Frobenius,…