New Yam Festival of the Igbo
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title:
New Yam Festival of the Igbo
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The New Yam Festival of the Igbo people is an annual cultural festival by the Igbo people that is held at the end of the rainy season in early August. The Iri ji festival is practiced throughout West Africa and other African countries and beyond. It symbolizes the conclusion of a harvest and the beginning of the next work cycle. The celebration is a cultural occasion tying individual Igbo communities together as essentially agrarian and dependent on yam.
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Annual Igbo cultural festival
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yam_Festival_of_the_Igbo
date created:
2008-11-14T01:58:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T15:13:02Z
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