ABSTRACT
A people are judged by history according to its contribution to the culture of other peoples flourishing at the same time and according to its contribution to the cultures which arise afterwards. Contemporary Nigerian culture may seem almost overwhelmingly rich and varied in its manifestations. The emphasis on a developing, internally diverse national culture, with some cohesion of its own and at the same time a part of world culture, on the other hand contributes a great deal to an understanding of what Nigeria is now, and of the way Nigerians in Kafanchan and elsewhere look at life. One of the advantages of a creolist view of contemporary Third World cultural organization is that it suggests that the different cultural streams engaging one another in creolization may all be actively involved in shaping the resultant forms; and that the merger of quite different streams can create a particular intensity in cultural processes.
