Chapter+5b+festivals


 * Chapter || Book Page numbers || Topic || Due Date Discussion || Facilitator ||
 * 5 || pg. 36-45 || Festivals || 11-26-08 || Yasmine Khoushab ||

[|Ibo Festival Link] Notes: __**Onisha Festival**__  -     The Ibo tribe celebrates a lot of festivals but the most common one is called the Onisha Festival.  -   The title of the ivory holder can be claimed by any woman who has collected enough ivory and coral to fit her out in the costume. - During a lot of the festivals there would be lots of costumes from being in masks and being dressed in ivories. **__The Yam Festivals__**  -   The yam festival is a big celebration as well and usually held in the beginning of August.  -   The yam festival celebrates the first crop to be harvested. -People offer yams to gods and ancestors first before distributing them to the villagers and this is their way of giving thanks to the spirits above them. __**Other Festivals**__

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- In Nigeria there is a festival called the Ague festival which a festival for celebrating the traditional fasting period to represent the struggle with no food or nothing could be harvested. ======


.  -   There are tons of ceremonies in the festivals such as Ugvie the festival of cleaning. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> -   The festival that celebrates the return of the ancestors is called the Egungun festival. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> -   A fishing festival called the Angungu festival is held for several days during the months of February and March.

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