ART AS A VEHICLE TO RELIGOOUS EDUCATION IN ENUGU STATE (A- CASE STUDY OF EZEAGU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA)
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ART AS A VEHICLE TO RELIGOOUS EDUCATION IN ENUGU STATE
(A- CASE
STUDY OF EZEAGU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA)
ABSTRACT
Ezeagu
is among the tribe that produces art in Enugu State. Most of them are now
Christanions, yet the old traditions still have a powerful influence in the
life of Ezeagu people. It is better for one to trace the history
of
his people and pass it on to the younger ones.
The
Art of Ezeagu people suffered much humiliation and neglect at the advent of
western civilization. The effect was felt more on the sculpture which comprised
carving and molding. Such an event will deny generations to come the knowledge
and pleasure of seeing what their for-fathers and fathers did in the past.
Traditional
Ezeagu Artist creats some or his art mainly as instruments by which to make
contact with supernatural forces which help him to over-come the danger of
their environment. These art objects being created are ritual pots, birds,
plants, carved doors and images, ofor, masks, mound, paintings for religious
worship. Some of these art works could be found in village squares, shrines or
altars,, evil forest, hands of individual persons. For instances, “ofor” is
handy and is seen on the hand of any man who calls himself a father in the
traditional religious group.
The
produces of these works are traditional artists, priests and medium men. Some
of these works when completed are used as very powerful oaths. In modern
churches, there are art objects and their uses,, for instance, in the catholic
and protestant churches.
My
finding revealed the role of art in traditional religion, identification of
tools and materials used in the production of art pieces, and its utility.
In
carrying this investigation, traditional artists were interviewed and their
works examined. Traditional religious priests, common men were also
interviewed. The rest of the information was obtained from books, journals,
magazines, archives and libraries.
At
the end of this discussion, one should be able to know the importance of Art in
Religious education in Ezeagu Local Government Area.
CHAPTER ONE
ART
AS A VEHICLE FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN ENUGU STATE A CASE STUDY OF EZEAGU L.
G. A
BACK
GROUND OF STUDY
GEOGRAPHICAL
LOCATION:
Ezeagu is located some twenty kilometers south west of Enugu, the Enugu State
capital of Nigeria. Bounded on the north by Uzo- uwani Local Government of
Anambra State and on the east and south by parts of Udi L.G. A., then on the
west by Awka- North L.G.A. The entire area is liberally watered by the River
Ajali, which is the factor upon which the Greater Ajali Water scheme of the
Enugu capital Territory is derived. Occupying a land area of over 630 kin, the
greater part of its geographical area is low-lying with savannah – like
vegetation. It has an estimated population of about 200,000 based on the 1991
census.
ETHNOGRAPHY:
Ezeagu teases her ancestry to an itinerant farmer and hunter who settled at
Imezi Owa. The man known and called Owo or Ezeagu, (literally, “King of the
farm”) was the name he earned following his unprecedented success in the
cultivation of the land and hunt for game Eze meaning King and Agu
meaning wilderness.
The man Ezeagu married Mgboli who fore him three sons, who were, in order of
with, Owa, Oghe and Oghu. He later married a second wife Udeagu
from Nkanu, by whom he got a son, Umana alias An a on Naa, who became
Ezeagu’s seoond son in Oadea of birth. Umana got two sons oblelagu and Awo
(Umana Ndiuno, Umana Ndiagu and umana Agba). The Umana extraction often
referred to as the umana neli has ten villages with obeleagu having six and Awo
had two sons, Obunofia and umumba. Today, all boona fide descendants of Ezeagu
owe their direct ancestry to Owo alias Ezeagu and his fore children who later
spread out to the four corness of the clan to found new homes for themselves.
Grand any great grand children soon followed and these were to be the soot of
the many antonymous communities which today answer the collective name of
Ezeagu clan.
The Olo and Oha guoups (called Umudiaba) Later immigrated from the west and
settled on the western slope beside the clan following inter-marriages, social
and cultural interactious with the Ezeagu people, these immigrants acculturates
and gradually melted into the Ezeagu complex.
OCCUPATION
AND CULTURE OF EZEAGU PEOPLE:
Ezeagu is endowed with a which cultural
traditional festivals and dances announce the arrival and depurative of
traditional festivals of the various seasons of the years. The people are
predominantly farmers, cassava on the low – lying plins the liver banks.
The swampy tegions of
Olo and Mgbago-Owa areas have been identified as suitable for since
cultivation, and the Enugu State. Government ministry of Agriculture is already
making experiment on cooperative large scale since farming there.
Ezeagu has, traditional festivals amongst others like Ogugo – chi, Akanu,
Ibono – okochi, Ibono Udu – Mii, Mgba une n’ une, Mgba Ogwu and Atiliogwu.
Successful farmers also take titles of Ozo and Ekwu dosing specific periods of
the year. The influence of Christianity in Ezeagu has brought a lot of change
in the people’s life. Fanatics have found the spread of Christianity of
destroy one cultural identity and should approach this with caution because no
nation ever survived without cultural identity.
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