We have gotten to the stage where we need to ask ourselves questions as we critically reflect on the things we do in the name of tradition.
As it is, we are the architect of our own destiny; tradition will always be what we want it to be. It is sad to know that many people have been led to believe doing something in a particular way is the norm.
Religious and cultural sentiments do not help either as they seem to put people in tight corners where they are stuck. They involve divinity in the things they do as they find a way of making people do them at all cost.
People celebrate in different ways; this is because the way we respond to things differ. The variation in ethnicity makes it difficult for people to pass judgement since what is acceptable in one tribe may be seen as a taboo in another.
A certain young man was decorated with powder because his wife gave birth to a baby boy. It is understandable that people’s reactions to good news vary but seeing a full grown man in powder from head to toe is absurd.
In some universities students do different things to people who are matriculating or graduating. Seeing a full grown man washed in powder is certainly thought provoking. Is this some sort of initiation into fatherhood?
Find below some pictures that show what was done to man whose wife gave birth:
Na so we dey do for ngwa. Over happiness
Yes that is how they do it in some states is a sign of joy.
Yes ohh its a sign of happiness
Is normal
Yeah, 2much joy
It’s normal, same thing happened to my husband wen I gave birth to our bundles of joy…
Over happiness
Edo culture.
Isi-ala ngwa culture
Happiness.
Congratulations
We thank god almighty oooh
Wats new is dis nw,Re u Jst seeing dis??Yabaleft dere is noting u won’t
Biafra culture
Congratulation
Omugo
Is normal thing .
Yaba left travel in order to get acquitted with culture and traditions in Nigeria. Bedroom reporter.
Igbo culture