REVIVING SOME IGBO TRADITIONAL PRACTICES: A PANACEA FOR RESOLVING THE CRISIS OF MORAL VALUES IN NIGERIAN MODERN SOCIETY
The contemporary society is faced with several societal cum religious challenges amongst many other challenges facing her. This paper tries to x-ray some of those socio-political, socio-cultural as well as the socio-religious challenges by looking into some of those Igbo cultural practices as well as how these traditional practices or foremost ways of living could become possible solution to the very many moral crisis facing our today Nigerian society. The emphasis here is on revitalizing those our core moral African values through these 'forgotten or passing' Igbo traditional Practices. A critical method of inquiry is employed in this discourse. The paper concludes by citing few of the Igbo traditional practices and how they have aided the primitive Igbo society as well as how they could be a solution to today modernized Nigerian society in resuscitating the dying moral values.
Keywords: crisis, igbo, modern, moral, nigerian, panacea, practices, resolving, reviving, society, traditional, values