He to everyone here. I hope we are all doing well today Alhamdulillah. It's been some days I make a post in this our noble community,so last night I open it and saw a contest on the pipeline for us to share our thoughts. I want to thank @steem4Nigeria for always trying to bring the best out of us in this blockchain. The contest is about my town and civilization.
We have to ask ourselves what civilization is;
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CIVILIZATION
First of all, we have to ask ourselves what is meant by civilization?
According to google, civilization is a complex human society, usual made up of different cities, with certain characteristics of cultural and technological development.
In my own words, civilization refers to a number of people,cities, communities, nations coming together in order to get a target which is development.
What are some of the histories of your town before civilization??
My town is Tamale,which is the capital of Northern region in Ghana. Tamale is known to be one of the biggest in terms of land size and a beautiful cultural heritage in Ghana.
Looking at this question, there are a lot of histories of Tamale. My city has a number of different people but with one great grandfather who is known as Tuha zie(The Red Hunter).
Even though our languages looks a bit different,but like I said we are all from the same grandfather.
There are a lot of history of my town before civilization,our language, our cultural dance,food, farming activities etc.
Our language was known by everyone,we could even boost of our numbers among the other people.
Our food, the food was one of the best foods in the olden days as compare to this days.
Our farming activities, during the olden days,our parents use to get a lot from the farm. For this reason,my town was the highest produces of food items.
Do the people of your town still keep some of the old practice
Looking at the olden days activities in my town,I can not say we are still practicing it and I can not say we have abandoned it.
My reason is that,there are people who always teach people about the olden days activities but they are not practicing it. A lot of things has been lost, unless the European people pays a visit that they will try to bring out just for them to see and leave. But some are still intact that we can still boost of. Some of our festivals are still on course and some aspects.
Things I missed about the old practice before civilization
As the future leaders,we do need to learn a lot of things from the elderly people because we don't have to abandoned our own for others. there are a lot of things or practices that we want to know about. We really I missed a lot.
Below are the things we missed, our olden means of farming,our olden food, festival and also our dressing mode.
Looking at our farming activities, during the olden days,they were using animal waste on their farm lands but this days, farmers are now using organic fertilizer in their farms that is not helping the crops well.
Food preparation was also done by the use of firewoods,but this days, women now use gas burners,rice cookers and others in preparing food. There were even local aromas use in cooking,but these things have been abandoned, women now uses onga and other spices that are not even healthy to us as men.
The celebration of our festivals,I really missed the olden days celebration of our festivals. This days, people are now using original or foreign guns in the celebrations of our festivals which is not the right way as we have been told. It is only for the our local warriors who should be using the guns in our festivals.
Do you prefer the changes civilization has brought or vice versa
Well to me,what I can say is that I don't like the changes civilization brought to my our town, but it doesn't means that it doesn't have advantages but it seems it is washing away our olden behaviors.
Civilization has brought a lot of good things to us.
In Conclusion, I can say that I prefer more of the uncivilized than the civilized,but at least the civilization should not have much impact,which is,it should not took all over of the uncivilized.
I want to use this opportunity to invite @lukman1, @savi223 and @titi7 to also take part in this contest.
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