The Use of Festival Drama in Promoting Nigerian Culture: The Example of The Odo Festival Drama
Culture is a human concept, a social heritage of any society which is always specific and distinctive way of life of a group of people. By this, we mean that culture has meaning only with human person. Every human being is born into a cultural milieu rather than being organically transmitted at conception as a genetic characteristic of an offspring. Adopting the functionalist approach which suggests that several aspects of society have functions they played in maintaining the social order as a whole, the crux of this paper therefore, is to showcase how we can use festival drama which is part of our culture in promoting Nigerian culture. This can only be achieved if we give up most of the borrowed western cultures that has invariably made a mess of our avowed traditional values.
Keywords: culture, drama, festival, nigerian, odo, promoting