so what is culture?
It is generally the way a certain society lives. This includes their values, beliefs, languages, dressing, daily practices and much more. This means each society has its own culture: the Chinise culture, European culture, Asian culture etc, and no culture is superior to the other.
It seems to me today that people are disturbed by the word culture. It is associated with some bad myths and disgusting practices. But the truth is, our culture is our identiy. when we identify ourselves as Africans, we are automatically associated with its cultures.
Cultures evolve, adapting itself to new environment and circumstances and Africans have had to deal with multiple changes in their cultures. But does this mean we abandon our cultures? Nope! it just means we learn to incoporate the modern lifestyle with our own cultures. It means we develop without abandoning our identiy or perhaps use our identity to develop.
Our culture is in danger of being totaly forgotten. We,(The modern generations) either don't know it well or we just don't want anything to do with it or we find it easier to just move with the current. We are reminded more of our problems and failures than our resilient selves. Our grand parents are dying without telling us of the old golden stories (probably because they have been replaced by TV).
well, let us remind ourselves of how it used to be....
"Sometimes you need to swim against the current for you to achieve what you want"
-M.Zulu
Be grateful to the tree so that it may yield more fruits
-A Shona Proverb
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