It serves as a highlight of succession proceedings I briefly offered in an instalment published a fortnight ago. In that introductory part, I opined that documentation of such important cultural events provides an essential platform through which our culture can be promoted, shared and preserved for posterity.
Although cognisant of the fact that culture is dynamic, I always pay attention to contemporary cultural practices among different cultural groups. I have the conviction that although cultural change in inherently unavoidable, there are certain traits that remain deeply embedded in the daily ways of any people over long periods of time. It is therefore partly my duty as a cultural heritage practitioner to document and deduce those changes over time for the benefit of future generations. Since the history of any society is shaped and determined by social, economic and political events, it should be the duty of scholars to study it to help highlight where we come from as a people.
