Ezinihitte Mbaise LGA Festivals

Oji Ezinihitte festival 1st January



Oji Ezinihitte festival 1st January

Ọjị (kola nut) is indispensable in traditional life of the Igbo of Nigeria. It plays an important role in almost all segments of the people‟s cultural life. In the Ọjị Ezinihitte festivity (kola tradition) is meaningfully and elaborately celebrated. Ezinihitte is a socio-cultural heritage, which must be celebrated continually. Ọjị festival's involves rituals, Ọjị (kola nut), Ọjị Ezinihitte cultural festival, Socio-cultural heritage, Historical dynamics in Igboland, Nigeria.

The planting of kola-nut seedling is the first programme of the Oji festival.

All the 14 communities in Ezinihitte Mbaise, and Umuhu, Lagwa and Ibeku in Aboh Mbaise, Imo State, will converged on Orienta market square in Chokoneze, to pay homage to their ancestral home, with the traditional planting of kola- nut, thereby, kick-starting the main event, Oji Ezinihitte, which holds on the first day of January every year.

Iriji festival ( New Yam festival) August 15th unanimously celebrated by all the communities.
Iriji is an annual cultural festival by the Igbo people held at the end of the rainy season in early August.
The Iri ji festival (literally "new-yam eating") is practiced throughout West Africa (especially in Nigeria and Ghana)and other African countries and beyond,symbolizing the conclusion of a harvest and the beginning of the next work cycle. The celebration is a very culturally based occasion, tying individual Igbo communities together as essentially agrarian and dependent on yam, the king of crop.