Festivals

•Held in all of the igbo speaking states in Lagos. •Iri-ji ( new- yam eating) is signifiacant by celebrating the commmunities as one, a •During august •Belivued that the new yam itermediaries between the commubties and gods of the land •To epress the comunitys appereication to the gods for making the harvest possible •Influnece by christianity •Never taste the new yam until the day of ther cermeony •Only things that are grown are at the eaten at the festivle to turely show appericateion
 * || Kamill Wright

This New Yam Festival- is a way that that all the people can come together •They apperiacte what they the harvesters but their friends •Marking the the eating of new yams •People get ride of their yams before the night of the festivles •They dance and celebrate the yams, new year with taste amd fresh yams instead of old dried up ones •Yams are gods •The oldest man is the king and they kinda worship him •Expressing gratefulness toward gods for the yams •Symbolic from production of the yams ||