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Importance Of Traditional Attire by ou mackson

Importance Of Traditional Attire

Importance Of Traditional Attire by ou mackson
Importance Of Traditional Attire by ou mackson

Importance Of Traditional Attire

Traditional wears also known as folk costume, regional costume, national costume, traditional garment, or traditional regalia are clothes or jewelries associated with a geographic area or group of people or clan, rooted from their ancestors as a means of identification. It can also indicate social, marital or religious status.

Traditional or folk dress has played and still plays a very important symbolic role in our lives especially in the preservation of national values and cultural heritage. The traditional attire also brings families together and keeps the culture alive especially, in this cultural displaced era.

Based on the significance of the traditional wear, it is worn in occasion like festivals, weddings, harvest, and other special occasions.

Everyone has an ancestral attire they are associated with, it is more or less an identity in other words, the traditional costumes are as different as the people who wear them.

The United States which are believed to be people without a traditional root is however known for western wears, and i can arrogantly tell you that those western wears we celebrate are the traditional attire of the westerners especially the denim jeans, cowboy hats, and flannel shirts. How ever, the cohabitation exercise practiced in America has made it difficult for one to identify the true folks attires from that of nationals by marriage, citizenship by birth, citizenship through derivation, citizenship through acquisition, and through naturalization.

The traditional attire gives a sense of nationalistic pride and security, as well as confidence in a fashion sense, especially when you come from a country with rich cultural heritage.
Confidently wearing and celebrating your cultural attire even in the diaspora satisfies that feeling of certain duty to represent your country in fashion and shows how proud you are of your traditional clothes and that you strongly represent your people and will not let your culture, your people, die out, even in a country with racial history of shaming people’s cultural values and identity.

I hereby encourage everyone to appropriate, value and wear their traditional outfits as often as possible, that would add more spice and fun to fashion entirely.

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O U Mackson's profile: O U Mackson, born Ozuruonye Mackson Uchenwa is a Nigerian journalist, filmmaker, talent manager entarprenuer and the founder the talent promotion company O U ENTERTAINMENTS and CEO O U Mackson. Date of Birth: 2nd February 1992 (28 years) Hometown: O U Mackson hails from Eziama Uturu in Abia state Family: Ozuruonye Uchenwa was born into a polygamous family of 3 legal wives and 16 children. O U Mackson is the 4th child of his mother; Mrs Obiesie who was his 2nd wife and the 12th child of the family. Background: O U Mackson was born in his hometown Uturu but moved to Adamawa state at infancy to Professor Calistus Akosim; a guidan, where he started his daycare and nursery education at University Nursery School then primary school at University Primary School. He optained his First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC) in the same school before he moved back to his parents in Uturu, Abia State to continue his secondary education at the Assumption Model Technical School, Uturu then completed Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) at Osusu Secondary High School, Aba, Abia state. Ozuruonye Mackson Uchenwa gained admission to study Mechanical Engineering in the Federal Polythecnic, Ilaro, After his Ordinary National (OND) in 2012, Ozuruonye Mackson Uchenwa enrolled in the University of Alaska Fairbanks USA, in the first quarter of 2013 and emerged one of the best graduating students of 2016 from the English department where he studied English Literature/Letters (BA) In 2019 Ozuruonye Mackson Uchenwa completed a postgraduate diploma (PGD) in journalism in the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) Work Experience National Television Authority (NTA10) Program Canvasser National Television Authority (NTA2) Field Journalist/Producer Betex Communications limited Producer/Director PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS • Script Writing - Certificate - 2010 • English/Human Relations - Certificate - 2013 PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS • CEO O U Entertainments (www.oumackson.com) • Author of 3 published books • Graduate Member of Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) HONOURS Best Prose writer of the year, award 2010 Association of Nigeria Authors, Ondo Chapter. Awarded by: His Excellency the Executive Governor of Ondo State. (Dr. Rahman Bamidele Mimiko)

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