ABSTRACT: Nigeria has a lot of natural and man-made tourism potentials, which includes but are not limited to masquerade festivals, traditional and contemporary drama, cultural edifices and so on. These tourism potentials, especially masquerade festivals as treated in...
IKeji Festival, which takes place in Arondizuogu in Imo State, is believed to have as many as four versions of it’s origin. The first version talks of how a warrior named Dikeji from Arondizuogu conquered a village and made it compulsory for the defeated ruler...
Ineh is the festival of the Onotu Society also referred to as Igba Ekwensu. The Onotu is a society of war veterans. War itself is about decimating the enemy. According to popular belief,’’the hero is he who went to war, killed the enemy and came home safely.’’ The...
Oji also known as kola nut is a fruit of the kola tree, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. Although the caffeine-containing fruit of the tree is sometimes used as a flavoring ingredient in beverages, it has great spiritual significance in Igbo land (Global...
Palm wine as the name implies, is the product of sap of different palm trees. These include; date palm, coconut palm, Palmyra palm, the oil palm and the Raphia palm. The term “wine” comes as the result of fermentation of natural wild yeast from the palm....
