Al-Hikmah University Journal

This paper, through a historical approach, gives a succinct overview of the land and people of Akpor. The paper
copiously x-rays the practices of Akpor indigenous learning system as imbedded in five cardinal goals of the
people‘s traditional education. The paper captures the far-reaching influence of western education on Akpor native
learning system. It notes that despite the overwhelming and debilitating effects of Western education on the
educational, religious, and socio-cultural economic spheres of Akpor, the people‘s primordial values and systems of
education continue to exist, though in a frail and distorted form. The paper however submits that although Western
education has also made some positive impacts on the social landscape of the people, the latent prowess of Akpor
primal education is no less still germane in the quest for the revival, functionality, and sustenance of contemporary
education.