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The essay adopts a straightforward approach drawing from experience and participation in new yam festivities at home and in diaspora. New Yam festival in Igboland of Nigeria or among the Igbo and their friends in Diaspora is always marked with pomp and pageantry. The occasion of Iwa Ji and Iri-ji Ohuru or new-yam eating festival is a cultural.

IN celebration of the 2014 Children’s Day, the Outreach Department of Chapel of His Presence, Ajao Estate, Lagos, organised an essay competition with the title: The Nigeria of my dream, for.

The new yam festival is an event that takes place every year and is mostly celebrated in the South, Middle belt and East of Nigeria. The event takes place at different times in various villages around the country at the end of the rainy season between August to October.

That was how the new yam festival used to be celebrated in Igbo land many decades ago. But, these days, the culture of new yam festival seems to be done in reverse. For instance, the Arondizuogu now celebrate the new yam festival in the month of March when yam seedlings are sowed instead of August when new yams are harvested.

The New Yam festivals in Nigeria are taken for granted here, and no one can imagine its culture without this celebration. The New Yam Festival is one of the major festivals in Nigeria for the representatives of Igbo people. The celebration is held annually at the end of the rainy season at the start of August.

The New Yam Festival is a popular annual cultural festival in Igbo land, Southeast Nigeria. The festival is held at the end of every farming season, usually in August, to mark the beginning of harvest. Symbolically, the festival, known as Iri ji ohu, Iwa ji or Ike ji in the Igbo language presents the people with the opportunity to make.

Leboku New Yam Festival - Yakurr. This is a three weeks new yam festival celebrated by the people of Yakurr, Yakurr is a local government in Cross River State of Nigeria and comprises of villages such as Ugep, Idomi, Ekori, Mkpani, Nko.

Layi Olanrewaju, Ilorin The Omu-Aran New Yam Festival in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, has come and gone. However, its memory will remain in the minds of the people. It is.

Abuja — The people of Asaba still cherish and celebrate their annual Iwaji Festival (New Yam Festival). This years celebration took place on September 18, with pomp and circumstance.

The condiments usually used to cook the tubers of yam for a New Yam Festival are usually Fresh Palm Oil, Salt, Utazi, Pepper, Onions and Crayfish, among others. Two special delicacies usually prepared on that ceremonial day include: Boiled White Yam (with its tubers) coupled with its red oily sauce; and Yam Porridge (Ji-awayi).

In Nnewi, the occasion of Iri-ji ohuu (new-yam eating) is a cultural festival because of its significance. Nnewi people celebrate their usually at the end of August during which assortment of festivities mark the eating of new yam. These festivities.

FESTIVAL, EBONYI STATE, NIGERIA Edwin Njoba Onyeabor Department of Agricultural Economics, Management and Extension, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki ABSTRACT: The study was carried out to assess tourism potential of Onicha Igboeze community New Yam Festival. Six (6) villages, 12 key informants and 60 ordinary residents.