Igbo culture includes the various customs, practices and traditions of the Igbo people. It comprises archaic practices as well as new concepts added into the Igbo culture either through evolution or outside influences. These customs and traditions include the Igbo people’s visual art, music and dance forms, as well as their attire, cuisine and language dialects. Because of their various subgroups, the variety of their culture is heightened further. In the Igbo society, traditional education starts from infancy. The child is surrounded by members of the family who are teachers to the child. He is taught everywhere and so for an Igbo child, he learns the entire etiquette, good moral through examples. The child therefore learns through imitation and this helps him to develop socially, physically, politically, religiously so as to become a full fledged man in the society.
Igbo customs are basically similar with local variations. The Cola nut custom, music, dance, art, oral literature and taboo are basically patterned to reflect an identical conception of Igbo social and ritual system………
