DRAMATIC ELEMENTS IN THE ONUNU FESTIVAL OF OKPUJE IN NSUKKA

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DRAMATIC ELEMENTS IN THE ONUNU FESTIVAL OF OKPUJE IN NSUKKA (ENGLISH AND LINGUISTIC PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)

ABSTRACT

        This research concerns the Dramatic Elements in the Onunu  festival of Okpuje, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu state. The research was confined to the eight communities that make up Okpuje, the work was necessitated by the need to examine the impact of Christianity and development on the promotion of this festival and to counter the evolutionist school of thought on the non-existence of Igbo drama. The objectives of the study are among others to demonstrate that the Onunu Okpuje Festival is a form of traditional drama. To accomplish this, a historical research was conducted. Data were sourced from both primary and secondary sources. It was found out that quite a number of scholars, both Nigerians and  others, have studied mmonwu as a form of traditional drama. The relativist school of thought holds the view that there exists traditional drama and so the Onunu Okpuje festival is a form of African traditional drama. The entire people of Okpuje (especially the youths) are urged to participate actively in the festival so that the festival will be livelier. Other researchers are called upon to carry out researches in other aspects of the festival. The government and non-governmental organizations are also called upon to fund researches on the Onunu Okpuje so that its culture will be preserved.

 

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

  1. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF OKPUJE

        Okpuje is a town that is located at the north-west end of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. It is on the trunk B road leading from Nsukka to Idah in Kogi state. At her Northern   end, Okpuje has a common boundary with Ibagwa  Agu in Nsukka Local Government Area; in the south, Orobo-Abbi in Uzo-uwani Local Government Area, in the East, Ibagwa-ani and Akpa-Edem both in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State and in the west, Avurugo and Ugwaka in Kogi state. It is situated on a friendly land scope which is straddled, somehow, by two hills, one at the north and the other at the south, extending to the western part of the town.

ECONOMY

        The primary occupation of Okpuje is farming. This can be attributed to the large expance of agricultural land on which it is situated. A lot of farm crops such as yams of various species, coco yam, cassava (for which the people are great garri producers), melon, maize, beans etc. are produced in the town.

        A man is adjudged rich based on the abundance of agricultural crops he possesses by traditional standards. Wealth in itself confers honour and dignity. Consequently, people strive to be wealthy and since what an individual, working alone can hardly acquire wealth, it makes people to marry as many wives as they could. Many children are born and   large scale farming is practised. More hands, more wealth and greater recognition is achieved.

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