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 creates 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.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
ONE
BACK GROUND OF STUDY
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:
ETHNOGRAPHY:
OCCUPATION AND CULTURE OF EZEAGU PEOPLE:
CHAPTER
TWO
Purpose of Study
Importance of Study
Scope of thee Research
Objective
CHAPTER
THREE
ART IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION
LITERATURE REVIEW :-
DESCRIPTION OF SAMPLE
CHAPTER
FOUR
DISCUSSION AND INTERPRETATION OF RESULT
CHAPTER
FIVE
ART AS A MEANS OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER
SIX
ARTS IN MUSLUM RELIGION
REFERENCE
CHAPTER
ONE
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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