Lorena Osafile

MY COMMUNITY

I come from Umunede, a conspicuous town in Ika Nation,Delta state,Nigeria with over a population of 22,611 (as at over 1991 Natuonal Population Census Figure). Umunede is no longer the traditional society it was one hundred years ago, when it was controlled and governed by ancestral spirits and cultural legends which underlined a mystical convertism in all espects of the community life. This is because between the past and the present is the phenomenon of change. The problem with change in any human community is that ot usually affects the identity and way of life of the people, not just human both animals and plants. And since development involves change, then we have a socio-cultural problem on our hands because the bewildering results induced by developmental transformations make development and constancy incompatible