BADE FOLKLORE: A TOOL FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION

Abstract

This paper examines the role of Bade Folklores towards promoting national unity and integration. Definitions of folklore and national integration have been given to serve as guide for proper understanding of the paper. This paper discusses Bade folks as tools for integration and unity of various ethnic groups. These forms of Bade folklore are visualized forms, recreational forms, institutionalized forms and verbalized forms. All these forms of Bade folklore are presented during colorful ceremonies of harvesting rituals, marriage, birth etc. Thus, these ceremonies promote unity and national integration. In effect, people of different tribes and cultures attend the occasions. The paper succeeded in elucidating the importance of Bade folklores toward national integration.