Waja

Revd Fr. Paul-Kolade Tubi, Ph.D*
E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract
Political power and religion bear directly on the lives of people of all communities.
This is particularly so of traditional societies. As globalization and westernization
rapidly set in upon the cultures of the world, it is imperative that ethnographers do
rigorous study before those cultures are completely altered. Globalization amends,
suppresses or erodes traditional practices, lores and mores. As a result of the
onslaught of westernization and globalization on traditional societies, it is
imperative that ethnographic methodologies are employed to study and document
aspects of traditional societies like the Okun-Yoruba that have come under the
influence of globalization.
This ethnographic study highlights the strong nexus between religion and
political power in indigenous societies like the Okun people who are confronted
with westernizing influence in their attempt to weld a coherent and functional
society within an authentic African culture.