Igbo masquerade at the Igbo New Yam Festival in Pyakasa FCT, Nigeria.
Category: Igbo New Yam Festival
Igbo Cultural Dancers
Igbo New Yam Festival a yearly harvest by the Igbo people in early august at the end of the rainy season. Yams are usually the first crop harvested and a very important crop to the people. All yams from the previous years harvest are eaten or thrown away before the New Yam Festival a symbol of abundance from the new harvest.
The first yam is eaten by the oldest man or the Igwe of the kingdom. With offerings to the ancestors and gods.
Igbo Masquerade @ Igbo New Yam Festival
Igbo New Yam Festival a yearly harvest by the Igbo people in early august at the end of the rainy season. Yams are usually the first crop harvested and a very important crop to the people. All yams from the previous years harvest are eaten or thrown away before the New Yam Festival a symbol of abundance from the new harvest.
The first yam is eaten by the oldest man or the Igwe of the kingdom. With offerings to the ancestors and gods.
Igbo Cultural Dancers, Igbo New Yam Festival, Pyakasa, Nigeria.
Igbo New Yam Festival a yearly harvest by the Igbo people in early august at the end of the rainy season. Yams are usually the first crop harvested and a very important crop to the people. All yams from the previous years harvest are eaten or thrown away before the New Yam Festival a symbol of abundance from the new harvest.
The first yam is eaten by the oldest man or the Igwe of the kingdom. With offerings to the ancestors and gods.
Igbo Masquerade
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Igbo Woman
Igbo Woman
Igbo Chief, Ugo 1 of Pyakasa, Abuja, Nigeria. #JujuFilms
Kola Nut
There was a wealthy man in Okonkwo’s Village who had three huge barns, nine wives and thirty children. His name was Nwakobie, and he had taken the second highest title man could take in the clan. It was for this man that Okonkwo worked to earn his first seed yams. He took a pot of palm wine and a cock to Nwakobie. Two elderly neighbors were sent to present a kola-nut and an alligator pepper, which were passed round for all to see, and then the kola nut and alligator pepper were returned to him. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and the eagle perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break. From the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
