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DIGITALLY PRESERVING TRADITION: THE EHWA RITE AND ISOKO CULTURAL HERITAGE

Tamuno Perewari Ebiowei
Published 03 June 2025
Vol. 13, No. 1 (2025)
pp. 1-10
CC BY 4.0
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    Tamuno Perewari Ebiowei
    Department of Fine Arts and Design Faculty of Humanities University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
    NG

Many cultural practices that were considered relevant in the continent of Africa in time past are no longer in existence today. Some others are shadows of what they used to be due to the influence of modernization, leaving no form of visual documentation for posterity. The Ehwa marriage rites are rites of passage practiced by the Isoko people of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria that also has gone extinct. Every young maiden due for marriage was expected to perform the Ehwa rite in order to be admitted into the league of women in her community. Despite its importance as an educational platform where young women were tutored on marital issues, Ehwa has ceased to exist leaving no form of visual records for posterity. This paper therefore attempts to highlight how digital image manipulation can be used to create and recreate visual imagery through oral history as documented by the researcher for posterity. Adobe Photoshop CC computer software is the manipulative tool to be used for the manipulation process in this project. The result and impact demonstrate a realizable dream of recovery of lost Ehwa rite.

JournalJournal of Human Resource and Organizational Behaviors
ISSN3065-0542
Volume / IssueVol. 13, No. 1 (2025)
Pages1-10
Published03 June 2025
DOI10.5281/zenodo.15582941
Access Open Access
LicenseCC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution
PublisherKeith Publications
Ebiowei , T. (2025). DIGITALLY PRESERVING TRADITION: THE EHWA RITE AND ISOKO CULTURAL HERITAGE. Journal of Human Resource and Organizational Behaviors, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15582941

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