AWA: Legends & Heritage

COMMUNALISM IN AWA A great lesson we can teach today’s   Cooperative Society Okey Okoli Emmanuel EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Awa Legends & Heritage Magazine I find communalism as the most admirable aspect of   Awa socio-economic lifestyle. This is a system where the people come together, and forsaking their individual commitments, attend to the need of a member or the community at no price. By this way, the citizens sacrifice their time and labour for a fellow citizen. Communalism is practiced in several ways in Awa. A few of   this welfarism lifestyle shown to individuals and the community are discussed below. Mmekwa-ihe Mmekwa-ihe is one good example of communalism. Here, an indigene who is to host a public requests some members of his/her kinsmen to come and assist him or her in preparing for the event. The enthusiasm shown while accepting this assignment makes this lifestyle very interesting. In fact, one may feel disappointed in another for failing to inv...

SETTING AGENDA FOR A NEW AWA Okey Okoli Emmanuel EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, Awa Legends and Heritage Magazine Historians tell us that the world is evolving generationally. Put in another way, generations come and go - each emerging generation getting more refined and more sophisticated in form and beauty. The Bible book of Daniel captured this more aptly in a pictorial form in the vision of King Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2). According to Bible scholars, God gave Nebuchadnezzar a load down of generations of earthly kingdoms using human image: Head of fine gold, chest & arm of silver, belly of bronze, legs of iron, and toes of mixture of iron & clay. Looking at the image above you notice a steady increase in quality, mordernisation and beauty - from toes of clay to head of pure gold. Compare this with the crude generation of premodal man (covering his nakedness with leaves, wondering in caves and bushes, and feeding on raw animal flesh) to a modern man using ceramics to dispose e...