MMỤỌ KECHAA EKPE MMADỤ EKEGHARỊA: NNYOCHA DINTA NKE J. C. MADỤEKWE

Abstract

The study explores one of the cultures of Igbo which is will-making. The Igbo value the tradition of will-making. Notwithstanding the position of will-making and the role it plays in the Igbo tradition, often people are bent on changing the term of the will to their advantage. This is portrayed in the literary work under study in which man averts the divine will or order of event out of sheer determination and articulate strategies. The objective of this study is to cultivate the knowledge of will-making, mostly to this present generation of Igbo that are not interested or ignorance of some of their culture. It is in this regard that the study anchors on the literary work of art as its point of depature as well as a reflection of life in order to explore the thought of willmaking, because it would help to give a clear vision of the Igbo worldview of will-making or inheritance for easy understanding. In a special way, it is one of the attempts to make a critical ená»uiry into the Igbo belief system to find out its shortcoming mostly those ones that appear to hold them captive in order to change them for better. The study is a survey on a written literature as well as on the will-making and its aversion in particular. Marxism is adopted as the literary theory for data analysis, so as to eụpose the political nature in the struggle between the spirit and human in the course of making the divine order of event to hold and human being’s determination to change the course of the event as portrayed in the Igbo Literary work under study. The data for the study are sourced from library, finding reveals that human being averts the event of death of the two childrenas it is willed by the spirit out of sheer determination and proper planning. The study would be of great value to the general public, mostly those who are interested in will-making and reason some people are bent on changing the term the of will.