Indigenizing counselling valuing the afterlife with the Igbo of south eastern Nigeria: a case for ino-uwa based intervention |
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Authors: | Chika Eze |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenyachikashcj@gmail.com |
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Abstract: | This study examines prospects for the utilization of the concept of ino-uwa practised by the Igbo cultural-linguistic community of South Eastern Nigeria to understand and address counselling needs of a child and his family. Ino-uwa is the cultural familial scaffold that bridges the lifeworlds of ancestors and the living. In this case, a child with debilitating and unspecific general illness was cured with evocation of ino-uwa. The implications of this anecdote are important for authentic counselling practice in an African cultural heritage context. |
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Keywords: | ancestral heritage counselling practice in Africa Dibia ino-uwa reincarnation relational connectedness |
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