Appraising Some Eastern Nigeria Cultural Practices on the Basis of the Moral Foundation of the Christian Faith

Abstract

African religion cum philosophy is practically inseparable from the entire African culture. This necessitates the metaphysical foundation of African world-view. In Eastern Nigeria as this work observes, the story is the same. Most of these cultural practices in Eastern Nigeria portray the peoples' religion and also serves as the means of social mobilization and control thereby maintaining the basic social values of the people. On this note, this work suggests that since our modern society is becoming a global village, Christianity and its moral values with its global acceptability should be used to reconstruct most of these cultural beliefs that cannot meet the demands of our modern time. The dynamism of culture demands that better cultural practices should be employed to replace the non-valuable ones, and the good ones should be maintained provided they can meet universal needs.