The Ekiti people are aboriginal, culturally homogeneous and highly intellectual agriculturalist Yoruboid-speaking people that forms a sub-group of the larger Yoruba ethnic group of West Africa, particularly in Nigeria and some part of Benin. Ekiti people who are well-known for their diverse and quality of traditional arts, music, poetry and witty sayings are reside predominantly […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday expressed optimism that the activities lined up for the forthcoming Lagos International Jazz Day will go a long way to showcase the tourism potentials of the State to the World. Governor Ambode, who spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja when he played host to some of the […]
In a scene reminiscent of Motor Grand Prix (GP), the city of Calabar, Cross River State, Sunday played host to over a thousand extreme motor bikers drawn from Nigeria, China, Canada, Australia Germany, the US, Philippines, Togo, Ghana and Benin Republic, in the maiden edition of Calabar Bikers’ Parade. Led by the state governor, Prof. […]
The anxiety surrounding the demise of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, has continued to heighten as worshippers of Oro began the annual festival in the ancient town on Friday night. Oro is a deity worshipped across Yoruba land, which forbids the womenfolk from going outdoors in the night during the period of its […]
Then comes the 'Ibroriade', an assemblage of the crowns of the past ruler, Ataojas of Osogbo, for blessings. This event is led by the sitting Ataoja of Osogbo and the Arugba, Yeye Osun and a committee of priestesses
The Osun Osogbo Festival to a large extent continues to unify the culture, art and identity of the Yoruba race 400 years on.
Across Igboland and among the Igbo of Nigeria in the Diaspora, the month of
August, as it is now, is gladdened with the celebration of New Yam called iwaji
and irijiohuru. This is best pictured in the framing of the ceremony by Chinua
Achebe’s work as far back as in the 1950s.As Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
(1958) describes it: “The pounded yam dish placed in front of the partakers of the
festival was as big as a mountain. People had to eat their way through it all night
and it was only during the following day when the pounded yam “mountain” had
gone down that people on one side recognized and greeted their family members
on the other side of the dish for the first time."