Annual festival marking the harvest of new yams. Celebrated with feasting, masquerades, dances, and rituals of thanksgiving.
Affirms agricultural cycles, honors the earth and ancestors, and renews social ties.
Widespread across Igbo culture; in Enugu Ezike it incorporates local masquerade performances and communal feasting.
Thanksgiving rituals, yam feasts, masquerade appearances, drumming, dancing.
