Speaking during the maiden Ohazurume Igbo festival ,
fund raising and awards , the Director , Directorate of Igbo Village and Center
for African civilization (IVACAC), Rev Fr Prof Bonachristus Umeogu said
collectively the sum would be raised to build a befitting center for IVACAC in
Unizik and appealed for support to make it a reality.
Prof Umeogu IVACAC has come to ensure that all these
Igbo traits and natural inclinations are in consonance with the Igbo spirit and
as well connect Igbo civilization to its source , Igbo spirit so as to give the
world a worthwhile enlightenment and civilization.
He said the center would excavate the contributions
of great Igbo heroes past like Nnamdi Azikiwe , Michael Okpara and Chinua
Achebe among others as well as indigenizing researches by instituting Igbo
studies in areas of Igbo Science , Igbo
Medicine , Igbo Engineering and
Igbo Architecture tomention but a few.
The center according to the Director , Rev Fr Prof
Bonachristus Umeogu is to preserve the order of Igbo spirit amidst the march
and progress of Igbo civilization. The center he said would act as the
conscience of Igbo people and the center is not only concerned about fostering
and preserving Igbo civilization in the world , but also with using Igbo spirit
, to organically measure and maintain the order and homogeneity of Igbo
civilization amidst changing and heterogeneity of Igbo times.
Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka ,
Prof Joseph Ahaneku, FAS in his address said the University was responding to
the fear of the eclipse of Igbo language and culture hence the University decided
to set up the Igbo Village and center for African Civilization to research on ,
revive and revitalize Igbo language and culture in the context of contemporary
times and to promote /propagate same in tandem with African civilization.
Prof Ahaneku appealed to Igbo sons and daughters to
assist the University in making the center a center of attraction in Igbo land.
In his lecture, the lecturer and President General
of Ohaneze Ndigbo , Chief Nnia Nwodo commended Prof Ahaneku for instituting a
General Studies in Igbo in the University to ensure every student graduating
through the institution had a smattering of Igbo language and culture,
describing it as a milestone in advancing the culture and language.
He frowned at the attitude of some parents who not
only discourage their children from grasping the language and culture but
ensures they do not speak it with them at home even as he appealed to parents
to be vanguards of promotion of the language and culture at all times and shun
those who refer to Igbo language and culture as vernacular.
He further commended the developments strides by the
Unizik VC , encouraging him to continue leaving his strides on sands of time as
history would judge him creditably.
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Igbo Village and Center for Civilization (IVACAC) established in Unizik to cost over N600 Million
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