TOWARDS HUMAN FUTURE

Esu-symbol and drummer at JCC

The Jungle Communication Centre (JCC), Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria hold a 3-day International Seminar / Workshop themed "Towards Human Future". The Seminar / Workshop thematic focus was on "The Gods and the World", directed towards the need to look inward to find solutions to the growth and development of mankind.

JCC stimulated a research on our forefathers and their traditional beliefs, so that there will be development in all facets of our life and existence, in order to bring a stop to killing, robbery, dishonesty and inhumanity to man.

• OKONFO RAO KAWAWA, JCC, Oshogbo/Nigeria:

Playing enables music to be alive, who ever plays good prays good

The initiator of the seminar gives an overview on musical instruments, on traditional, highlife and modern Yoruba and African musicians. He mentions also Afro-American music. Okonfo Rao Kawawa emphasizes the social force and the healing powers of African music: "Music is a dangerous and fearful weapon" - "Music and dance as therapy world music".
By terse remarks, he evaluates the cultural changements: "Through the industrial development era human being tries to turn a deaf ear to the ancestral Philosophy, which has been known long time ago by the society. Practice makes man perfect, the less the science of the ancestors is being put into practice, the more source will be forgotten. Back to the roots should not be only slogan."
 

• Dr. Moses Layiwola ADEOTI, Consultat Surgeon, Oshogbo/Nigeria:

Our culture and our health - the way forward into the future

Dr. Adeoti makes an attempt to examine the positive and the negative effects of Nigerian - traditional and modern - culture on health. So he is dicussing changes of family values, population explosion and the way traditional rites are celebrated. Two stories illustrate the problem of responsibilty for the future - here education plays a key role. Finally Dr. Adeoti says some words about the health-care system and the role of native herbalists.

"The gods cannot be neglected. As for those who say gods are not stupid, Jungle Communication Centre (JCC) is calling on people all over the world to be part of this Seminar / Workshop "Towards Human Future". Before everything fall apart, the moment to rekindle that human feelings is NOW. "