SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND FOLKLORE IN TRADITIONAL IGBO SOCIETY: PROSPECTS CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS.

Nnamdi Onuora-Oguno, Alvan-Ikoku Nwamara

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Sustainable development is an approach to economic planning that attempts to foster economic growth while preserving the quality of the environment for future generations. Despite its enormous popularity in the last two decades of the 20th century, the concept of sustainable development proved difficult to apply in many cases, primarily because the results of long-term sustainability analyses depend on the particular resources focused upon.  Since the Earth Summit of 1992 sustainable development has been central to a multitude of environmental studies.  Folklore comprises the sum total of traditionally derived and orally or imitatively transmitted literature, material culture, and custom of subcultures. In popular usage, the term folklore is sometimes restricted to the oral literature tradition.  Folklore culture was affected greatly by the rise of industrial society and of cities, as well as by nationalist movements beginning in the 19th century. Both the threat to folklore culture and the rise of nationalism spurred revival and preservation movements in which learned musicians, poets, and scholars provided leadership. This paper investigates the uses of oral literature in advancing sustainable development among the Igbo‟s of South Eastern Nigeria. The challenges and solutions were also analyzed and solutions proffered.

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