FUNERALS:NIGERIANS BORROWED IRISH CATHOLIC CULTURE
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
The recent burial of Chief Samuel Akinbobola Adeoba at the age
of 79 years at the Bishop’s Court in Ile-Oluji in Ondo state of Nigeria has
brought to the fore the tales of two great traditions.
Set in the Irish Catholic tradition ,The News Office Desk of
Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos ,Nigeria has being told funeral programs
held in several Christian communities in Nigeria are actually a borrowed
culture from the Republic of Ireland through the Christian missionaries that
arrived the land over 200 years ago.
British born Nigerian and widow of the deceased :Chief Mrs
Annette Adeoba s aid that when she
discussed her husband’s funeral program with one of her siblings who was most
likely married to an Irish ,she connected almost immediately o what she was
saying noting that the latter was not in
any way surprised at the kind of food ,drinks and the mammoth crowd expected
like it is in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa.
She added that this culture of the irish catholic church is
however different from Britain where thye dead is given a quick burial without
much ceremonies.
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