The Socio-Cultural and Educational Implications of Kolanut Presentation In Uburu

Abstract: This paper presents a socio-cultural analysis of kolanut presentation and
its educational implications in Uburu. It seeks to examine the meaning, types of
kolanut presentation, significance of kolanut lobes, occasions that require kolanut
presentation as well as its educational implications. The descriptive approach was
adopted for this study. Oral interview was used to elicit responses from five elders.
Data collected were analyzed descriptively using the language of kolanut
presentation in Uburu dialect, relative to the standard Igbo language. This was to
enable the researchers explicate the actual structure and diction of the dialect used in
kolanut presentation and its social and educational implications. The study reveals
that each community expresses their minds, beliefs and values clearly in their dialect
in the kolanut presentation. Another finding from the study shows that kolanut is a
unifying object for cultural identity and social harmony. Also, the study reveals that
there are- fourteen villages, and that these villages must be represented, while the
eldest from Umunaga (the oldest village), even if he is a boy, should be allowed to
lead the presentation prayer and invocation in kolanut presentations. The study
recommended that youths should be exposed, and encouraged, to appreciate their
cultural identity, heritage, norms, values and practices especially as it concerns kola
nut and its presentation which is a symbol of national and African unity. Also, basic
cultural practices such as kola nut presentation should be incorporated into the
National education curriculum for onward transmission of cultures and social
development