When Culture Stops Being Practised, It Starts Disappearing

@When Culture Stops Being Practised, It Starts Disappearing

Culture is more than colourful attire, traditional festivals and ancestral stories told once a year. It is the language we speak, the values we uphold, the food we prepare, the stories we tell, the respect we show, the crafts we preserve and the ways we connect as a people. Culture gives a community its identity; it tells us where we come from and, in many ways, shapes where we are going.

Yet, culture does not disappear overnight. It fades quietly when a generation stops practising what the previous generation deliberately preserved. When our indigenous languages become embarrassing, our traditional skills become irrelevant, our stories remain untold and our communal values are replaced without reflection, something precious begins to slip away. We may still celebrate the culture, but we are no longer carrying it.

The responsibility of preservation therefore cannot rest on museums, elders or cultural festivals alone. Young people must become active custodians of their heritage. We can learn the language, document our stories, support local artisans, celebrate our indigenous creativity and bring timeless cultural values into a changing world. Modernisation should not mean cultural amnesia. We can embrace the future without abandoning the wisdom that brought us here.

Every generation receives a cultural inheritance, but no generation owns it forever. We are temporary custodians of something that must either become stronger in our hands or weaker because of our neglect. What we practise today is what tomorrow's children will recognise as their heritage.

If the next generation learns culture from what we practise rather than what we preach, what exactly are we teaching them?

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@Otunba Dr Femi Abiola, MCE

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