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The New Yam festival is a highly captivating art event. The colourful festival is a visual spectacle of coherence, of dance, of joy and feasting, an annual display for community members, to mark the end of the cultivation season, a festival where the people express their gratitude to those that helped them reap a bountiful harvest. [15] [16]
In Igboland, there are different festivities that are celebrated, but the most influential of all include the masquerade festival and the New Yam Festival. [1] Masquerades are revered as superior beings in Igbo culture.
The Igbo calendar (Igbo: Ọ̀gụ́àfọ̀ Ị̀gbò [citation needed]) is the traditional calendar system of the Igbo people from present-day Nigeria.The calendar has 13 months in a year (Afọ), 7 weeks in a month (Ọnwa), and 4 days of Igbo market days (Eke, Orie, Afọ, na Nkwọ) in a week (Izu) plus an extra day at the end of the year, in the last month.
The yam is very important to the Igbo as it is their staple crop. There are celebrations such as the New yam festival (Igbo: Iri Ji) which are held for the harvesting of the yam. [14] The New Yam festival (Igbo: Iri ji) is celebrated annually to secure a good harvest of the staple crop. The festival is practiced primarily in Nigeria and other ...
The eight-day Ahianjoku festival honored the yam deity; since 1946, the annual August 15 new-yam festival has been a Christian version of the Ahianjoku festival. Oji Ezinihitte celebrates the Ezinihitte on January 1 each year. Itu Aka, before the farming season, encourages the people to weather the environment, modernity, and new challenges.
Some historians also believe the festival is related to the New Yam Festival in Onitsha and the devotion of the king to the safety of his people. [4] The festival marks the end of a period of retreat sometimes called Inye Ukwu na Nlo [4] when the Obi remains incommunicado and undergoes spiritual purification for the good of the community. At ...
There are celebrations such as the New Yam festival (Igbo: Iwaji) which are held for the harvesting of the yam. [196] During the festival, yam is eaten throughout the communities as celebration. Yam tubers are shown off by individuals as a sign of success and wealth. [197] Rice has replaced yam for many ceremonial occasions.
Traditional New Year: celebration in Sri Lanka coincides with the harvest festival in mid-April; Ugadi: celebrated by Telugu people in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kannadigas in Karnataka, India; Agera: celebrated by Bombay East Indians in Mumbai; falls on the first Sunday of October.