Culture and progress, By Uddin Ifeanyi
But increasingly, I am in no doubt that culture is more than Bàtá, Mkpokiti, Igbabonelimhin, Asharuwa, or the contortions we put our bodies through to show fealty to our elders and leaders.– the tendency has been to wage culture wars around the cinematic aspects of different people’s ways of life.
And over the period of the evolution of our species, as cultures have come to agree on their more useful bits – strong entities (people and countries) do not wage war on weaker ones simply because they can, victors are no longer permitted to feast on the hearts and vital organs of their male opponents while enslaving their wives and children, etc.
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