Hello friends, trust our week is going on well. We thank God for life and his grace over our life.
In this week initiative24 which is the power and influence of music on culture and identity.
Base on the topic lets me defined Power which can be refers to the ability or capacity to influence, control, or direct the behavior, actions and decisions of others.
Music has a great power on our culture, its has actually influenced and control our culture in different ways such as unity and limit crises within the community as a whole.
Many culture do have their own music and also do have the pattern of dance they follow.
I realize that many cultures have a unique way and how they dances to their tones.
No culture copy their ways from another. So where i came from, every twenty six of December we celebrate our culture.
We used this period to remind people around us how our culture is and how is being celebrated. Visitors are welcome at this period to have a great moment together with us .
We don't despise , we don't chase people away but with a warm heart , we welcome people around us whom are willing to have a joy of celebration with us.
In this moment of celebration a lot of masquerade will be displayed and with a lot dances will be show case at this period.
Culture has been a tool that bring long time family who have travelled a distance away from home.
It's has also been a tools for unionism and bring absent of conflict among family. More so its has also help us to recalled and remind us of our origin.
We celebrate our cultures through music.
Everybody body in the world came from one tribe or culture of the others and they have their music and the style of dance they represent.
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Like in my locality if i see Mada people having a ceremony and the kind of dance style showcase, i will quickly know that this people belong to the culture of Mada without asking any one and same with an Eggon people reason if because how they do display their ceremonial celebration. I will quickly know that this is an Eggon culture. So you will see that, this landed us to what we call identity. Identity refers to the unique characters that define an individual or group which include the social identity , cultural identity etc
The uniqueness characters help me to know where and which tribe they are from.
The dresses identity of a Tiv man is black and white, so when i see a Tiv man with this kind of dresses makes me believe and i will definitely know that he or she is from the tribe called Tiv because of his appearance.
Also when i see a mada dresses with his cultural colour which is red and with mixture of lion or tiger colour mixture i know he's a mada man ..
So i believe that there is no culture without a tribe and no i identity without a culture.
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This is my contribution to Afrin-Inleo initiatives-24.. see you next time.