The Owaloko of Iloko-Ijesa, His Royal Majesty, Oba Akeem Olusayo Ogungbangbe, (Ajagbusi Ekun VI) has announced dates for the activities lined up to mark the 2021 edition of the Iloko-Ijesa New Yam Festival.
Iloko Ijesa, a community in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State will on Saturday 21st August, 2021 hold it’s 2021 New Yam Festival.
According to the monarch he said the festival would hold at Chief Odeyemi Kehinde, Logan of Iloko Iesa residence by 10:00am prompt.
“Owaloko said he invite the good people of Iloko Ijesa, sons and daughters, Indigenes and non Indigenes to the annual event tagged “New Yam Festival”.
The New Yam Festival is therefore a celebration depicting the prominence of yam in the social-cultural life of Yoruba people.
The harvest of yam and the celebration of the God of the land through the New Yam festival is an epitome of the people’s religious belief in the supreme deity. The coming of the new moon in the month of August marks the preparation for the great festival, but the time and mode of preparation differs from community to community.
The New Yam festival is a highly captivating art event. The colourful festival is a visual spectacle of coherence, of dance, of joy and feasting, an annual display for community members, to mark the end of the cultivation season, a festival where the people express their gratitude to those that helped them reap a bountiful harvest.
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