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Summary
This study examines the impact of Agulu lake in Anaocha from colonial period till date. Although pre-colonial Igbo nation was referred to as a stateless society (Horton, 1972), its social control mechanisms prepared them very well to cope with the complexities of modern economic and political developments. While the advent of the Europeans and the subsequent colonization of Nigeria by the British helped to get rid of some inhuman methods of offender disposal such as the dedication of a person who committed an abomination to the gods, it (colonialism) however destroyed an effective normative system that preserved positive moral values of the Igbo for generations