By IKHUEBOR VIKRAM OSARUMEN

11/06/2012



Culture is one of the most dynamic and unique aspects of one’s existence and a strong binding cord that glue the society and her people together in unity. It has also over the years directed the path and way of behavior and life of the people; it also coordinates the activities of the social lives of the people.…

A Critique On Edo Culture

A Critique On Edo Culture

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Benin Culture: Author Laments Drift In Preservation

With Francis U. Odupute



Culture has long stood for the way of life of people, for the sum of the learned behaviour patterns, attitudes and material things.



Culture manifests itself both in pattern of language and thought and in forms of…

By AGBONZE AUGUSTA 

According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, culture is…

Context:

This lecture looks at Edo State’s Arts, Culture and Tourism values from the perspective of an outsider but informed from the point of view of an insider. By this I mean that the lecture examines this perspective from the view of a potential patron of our arts, culture and tourism and in so doing, it seeks to identify the opportunities, gaps and the extent to which this untapped wealth can be unleashed.

Let’s imagine that I am a middle aged white man,…

WE ARE, BECAUSE HE WAS

BY DR IRO EWEKA

CONSULTANT PSYCHOLOGIST/PSYCHIATRIST

ASSOCIATE LECTUREROPEN UNIVERSITY, BRISTOL, U.K.

TEXT OF THE THIRD CHIEF(DR) JACOB UWADIAE EGHAREVBA…

A Comprehensive Way to Understanding Edo Culture”



By Chief Dr. Daryl M. Peavy JD



Presented in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria June 2010 at the Conference organized on Traditional Edo Medicine, Benin City: Institute For Benin Studies,



The importance of a people’s indigenous language cannot be overstated. It is…

DECEMBER 24, 2014 

How can any responsive government feel the true pulse of its people over any crucial matter or concern? Go to the streets!

Skeptics may have had a run for it last week Friday, December 19, 2014, for the mammoth crowds that greeted the climax of the first ever Edo State festival of arts,culture and tourism which ran for…

Skeptic Approach To Edo Culture, Tradition and Religion. By Justus Olaye

By Justus Olaye



 

“African (Edo) Kids and most adults today have no moral values or sense of culture!” – a very common grievance of parents today whose parents -in their time- lamented about their lack of…

Izevbokun Commends Benin Monarch For Sustaining Igue Festival

By OGBEMUDIA JAMES



The Enogie of Evbuovbioba community in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo state, His Royal Highness (HRH), Edwin Aigbe Izevbokun has commended the Benin Monarch, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Erediauwa (CFR) for sustaining the traditional and cultural values of the great Benin Kingdom.



The…

JANUARY 1, 2015 9:21 AM BY ANDY EGBON 

BENIN CITY -United States-based Human Rights Activist, Mr. Frank Ekhator has condemned in its strongest terms, the attack on Edo culture by some unscrupulous religious Ministers, describing it as not only diabolic, malicious and ignorance, but ideological and fanatically driven for soul-wining and financial gratifications.

In a paper he delivered at a ceremony in Boston last Saturday, marking the celebration of Igue Festival by…