By Onyeume, Anthony Onyedika
This study emphasized on the phenomenon and traditional religious practices as the pillar of human existence among Akpo people, this work in other words, aims at exposing the structure of traditional religious practices from the past to the present. It bears in mind how it could harmonize and enhance the understandings that exist in the premises of the people’s traditional religion among the indigenes. Having seen these Igbo belief patterns, we ought to see in this work how the traditional Akpo people as part of Igbo people pay reverence to some of those spiritual beings in form of worship from past to the present. This is because this research is concerned with the nomenclature given to the reverence Igbo (Akpo) give to supernatural beings inform of worship from time immemorial. Traditionalist in Akpo is often misunderstood to have belief in some things barbaric, devilish, and heathen and of no value. In Akpo land, some worship in specific places for a defined purpose while in some places for same purpose they worship in Igbo world-view, so many interpretations come in, in view of the fact that the traditional religious systems of Akpo people have not received it’s desired attention, the research has dwelt much here to unravel the intricacies of their religious worship systems in comparisms with that of other religions that co-exist with it. It will also explore the traditional religion is sustained by traditional worship that provide stability to traditional Akpo values in social, political, economics and religious life of the people.