Conclusions

- live free from crime and sickness - live in harmony with unseen higher forces - live in peace with themselves and their neighbours - have many children and grandchildren
 * Major preoccupations…**


 * Avoid false comparisons between pre-modern African societies and modern European and American societies

- Igbo were quick to perceive the importance of Western education in the new colonial structure - Igbo people were, and still are, often very eager to accept change - As the ties that bound the communities disintegrated, the Igbo found new ones in Christianity and Western education
 * Explanations for Igbo’s sudden rush to embrace Western civilization…**


 * Igbo people have made material progress – to what extent will they continue to barter their culture for material progress and be completely devoured by Western civilization?**