Contemporary Customs and Practices in the South Eastern Part of Nigeria is both an educational and entertaining read for anyone with the faintest interest in African values and culture. Ezumah esq., by the employ of a reader-friendly styles of prose, casted her net wide to possible. The book dealt in details important customary laws and issues like inheritance traditional marriage, death and birth rituals, conflict resolutions and other various brings us closer to the nuances and nitty-gritty details of our native abodes. You will be surprised of how much you didn't know about your culture after a quick and perusal of this seminal piece of considering piece of work. The coming of this book is not only timely but also commendable considering how obsessive our people-the younger ones especially, have become used to western cultures to the detriment and total detriment and total disregard of their own indigenous way of life. Although the book is geographically restricted to the southern part of Nigeria with larger emphasis on the south east, its scope of coverage truly goes beyond that. Most African cultures share similar traits in their nuclei of operations, which mean that every Nigerian and African in extension will definitely relate with the scenarios and ideas being painted.