PORTRAIT 9 - THE RURAL SETTING

PROGRAMME SEVEN

Focuses on RURAL LIFE in Nigeria, its main features, similarities and contrasts. This is in recognition of the fact that despite today’s pervading urbanization, over seventy percent of Nigeria’s estimated 100 million people still live in the rural areas, “far beyond the synthetic and distracting images of urban life.” Theirs is the hard yet simpler life, free of the pervasive heritage of a lifestyle passed on by alien cultures.

The programme highlights the heritage of generations, of our ancestral character and values that are still kept alive. It also looks at the environmental and physical conditions that dictate occupations, lifestyles and such as the features of Nigerian rural life.

                                 

                                                   
                                                                                  Igbo Family Compound