IMPACT OF IJAKADI FESTIVAL ON SOCIO-CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF OFFA COMMUNITY

Cultural festivals are important historical activity that involves various activities showcasing several aspects of people’s living, they are not only a part of life, but also have fundamental impacts on the behaviour, traditions and histories of the people. Using existing oral tradition, and secondary data analysis, the paper discusses the importance of traditional festival and the need to historically study existing traditional festivals such as the Ijakadi festival of the Offa people, by looking at brief origin of the people, the geographical location and the emergence of the festival, using written and oral

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