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
Read MoreMODERNITY AND ITS IMPACT ON EKUECHI FESTIVAL AMONG THE EBIRA-IHIMA OF KOGI STATE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Celebration of festivals is an integral aspect of cultural lives of a society from the ancient time. In many African societies, culture represents a way of life. While some of these practices could be shrouded in mysteries, others are exhibited in the glare. Cultural practices vary from one society to another; they take place at different seasons, times and periods of the year, depending on their significance. This work attempts to examine one of such cultural heritage among the Ihima people in Okehi Local Government area of Kogi state, Nigeria. Ekuechi festival is one of the major cultural celebrations in Ihima which characteristically, features the coming out of masquerades accompanied with rituals, sacrifices, artistic display, music, pump and pageantry. However, over the years the usual glamour, rituals and
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