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. A masquerade must be treated with respect when seen in open places because it is thought that they represent both the spirit and human worlds. Another widely held belief is that the masquerades are considered to be higher than humans because they emerge from the soil.[2] Only men participate in masquerading whose identity is maintained a well-guarded secret.[3][4]
InIgboland, there are different festivities that are celebrated, but the most influential of all include the masqueradefestival and the New Yam Festival...
November 2007. Iwa ji Ofu (New Yam Festival) InIgboland!. Retrieved 11 May 2009. Onwutalobi, Anthony-Claret. "New Yam Festival - The Official Nnewi City Portal"...
Iriji-Mmanwu festival is held in Enugu state in August. At the festival, over two thousand masqueraders from across Igboland and from other states in Nigeria...
Ijele Masquerade, known as the biggest Masqueradein Sub-Saharan Africa, is a tradition of the Igbo people of Nigeria and was listed in the UNESCO Archives...
arguably the largest masquerade parade in West Africa. The inception of the Ikeji festival dates back five centuries and is an Igbo festival which unites all...
in tradition and it is one of the Igbo communities that still upholds her traditional practices especially the masqueradefestival. These masquerades...
festivities in time for the New Yam Festival. Chambers also suggests a link with the Igbo okonko masking tradition of southern Igboland, which features...
Igbo group living in the southern part of Igboland. The Ngwa people are found predominantly in Abia State with a population of 314,840 in 1963. They cover...
"It's New Yam Festivalin Oba, Anambra". Vanguard News. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021. "New Yam: A phenomenal festivalinIgboland". Vanguard...
enslaved in the Thirteen Colonies. The Igbo apprenticeship system is called Imu Ahia or Igba Boy inIgboland which became more prominent in among the...
located midway between two major cities in Northern Igboland, Onitsha and Enugu, which has played a significant role in its choice as an administrative center...
Nkwo In various parts of Igboland, each community has a market named after the aforementioned four market days, e.g., Eke market, Afor market. In the traditional...
Igbo masquerading traditions can be found among the festivals of the Garifuna people and jonkonnu in the West Indies and North Carolina. Ọdịnala in central...
on special Igbo religious festivals such as the New Yam Festival. Another major difference in taking of Ozo title inIgboland relates to the pre-requisite...
is arguably the biggest cultural festivalinIgboland. In contemporary times, each year has witnessed an increase in grandeur, display, dance, sophistication...
Awka on festival map". The Sun Nigeria. 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2021-08-14. Joy (2021-04-17). "All The Traditional Festivals Celebrated InIgboland". AnaedoOnline...
Ọkwa are a tribe of Igbo people and they are located at the hinterland of Igboland and coastal region of Bonny and Opobo. Pre-colonial Ndoki covers 450 square...
Igbolandin the 1970s, along with pottery and tools at nearby Ibagwa; the traditions of the Umueri clan have as their source the Anambra valley. In the...
one of the most valuable foods inIgboland. Another event celebrated by Amarauru and Okpuala villages is the "Festival of Nmanya Ama", or "Nmii Ama"....
prominent during those times. A masqueradefestival called "Abu Nkwu" took place on occasional basis. Ubakala believed in reincarnation and ancestor honor...
woven textile produced inIgboland for which the town of Akwete, also known as Ndoki, both which the cloth was named after in Abia state, Nigeria is famous...
the "capital of Igboland." After Enugu was captured by Nigerian armed forces, the Biafran capital was moved to Umuahia. Industries in the city include...
animals, and fertile lands. Ugbo is the ancestral home to many towns inIgboland. Ogulugu (which later split into Ugbo and the neighboring Obeagu community)...
from ancient times. The festival seems to be peculiar to these towns inIgboland. The Odunke may be described as a huge carnival with a grand ceremony...
Yorubaland and Igboland. Nigeria's other ethnic groups, sometimes called 'minorities', are found throughout the country but especially in the north and...
such a leader was King Jaja of Opobo. The Ijaw People bought slaves from Igboland, including Jubo Jubogha, an Igbo man, who was bought by the Ijo people...
regard to serious crimes, appears to have been more developed in Nnewi than elsewhere inIgboland. There were seven main classes of offences, which were known...
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