Dying Traditions in Igboland: Iku Ofo and the Modern Justice System

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dc.contributor.authorIwuh, John
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-27T18:48:58Z
dc.date.available2022-04-27T18:48:58Z
dc.date.issued2016-08
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the neglect of some traditional methods of punishment that prevented crimes and sustained the ethics and moral codes of the Igbo people before the modern institutional legal process. The dying practices of ikwa ala, ipa mkpo, and iku ofo are three obvious methods that guarded against incest, crimes like stealing and other forms of wrongdoing. Also threatened are eshe and ituaka that honour the dead at burials in order to maintain or restore the dignity of a family as well as prevent envy and attack of ancestral spirits. However, Christianity is opposed to these practices. This paper interrogates the dilemma of the Igbo society caught between these practices and the constitutional legal practice in the 21st century, which has greatly reduced the practice of these effective traditional methods of punishment in most communities. It thus questions the hope of a crime-free society in the foreseeable future given the allowances of modern justice system and the conflicts posed by questionable moral culture of modern Nigerian society. With illustrations, the paper examines some of these punishments in (ancient) Igbo land, how they kept crimes in check, some reasons for their decline, and the attractions of the modern justice system in the Nigerian societyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/2488
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNigerian Journal of Oral Literaturesen_US
dc.subjectTraditionen_US
dc.subjectJusticeen_US
dc.subjectIgboen_US
dc.subjectEsheen_US
dc.subjectAladimmaen_US
dc.titleDying Traditions in Igboland: Iku Ofo and the Modern Justice Systemen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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