EXPLORING YOUR COUNTRY RICH CULTURE BY “n-chris”

Hello great minds! Welcome to my blog. There are diverse culture all over the world with beautiful, different ,strange, rare traditions. I would like to give an accolade to the organizer of this contest @artist1111 as it serves as a medium for us to exchange our culture and know more about other people culture and tradition.

Culture is referred to as the customs, thoughts, belief and social behaviors identified to a particular hruop of people within a particular region while traditions the transmission of this customs, thoughts, beliefs from generations to generations. Here in Nigeria, we have about three hundred and seventy one ethnic group in Nigeria are Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. This three ethnic group consist of multiple tribe which generate upto three hundred and seventy one tribes interesting right. This tribes surely would have special beiges, ideas, cultures and traditions associated with them. I would briefly talk about they main three cultures and continue the contest. Read on

Yes this is my culture, I am produly Igbo. We Igbo commmunity are situated at the Eastern part of Nigeria which comprises of states like Anambra, Enugu,Abia, Calabar,Ebonyi and Imo. They igbo tribe has variety of food, dance, music, festivals and culture. They are known for their industrious nature of survival and they are considered the richest among the other tribes.

They are situated at there northern part of Nigeria, they are mostly Muslims and are known for cattle rearing. There are also famous for their traditional sporting event such as boxing which is also called dambe, stick figth also called takkai and wresting called kokawa in hausa language. The lauguage is the most spoken language in West Africa.

They are situated in the western part of Nigeria. They are believed to be a decendant of Oduduwa. They are known for their greatness in music,dance and art. Their traditional religion has vast hierarchy of deities including a supreme creator and lesser gods

My favourite cultural festival in my culture the Igbo culture is the “imwowu". This festival is always held around December period. In this festival masquerades are being released the community to entertain and frigthen tourist and the people. There are various masquerade which are being released, the biggest of them all is refered to as “IJELE". The ijele masquerade is a very special masquerade and it is the most feared masquerade. It is orginally originated from anambra state and it is popularly referred to the king of all masquerade. There are also dreaded masquerade such as the IZAGA,OLOOLU. They masquerade are treated with so much respect because it is belief thathe represent both the spirit and human world's.

We celebrate the haverst of a new yam from our farms. This if foundly called the new yam festival, in this festib we thank the gods sir the gift of a new yam. This festival always take place around August . The king of the Igbo community called OBI has to be the first person to cook and eat the new yam followed by the community. Masquerades are also relaesed during this festival and the masquerades are mainly to frighten people.

Generally the men wear red cap known as isi agu, shirts with are embedded with links drawings on them and a wrapper, while the women wears various designs of laced material.

Your culture can be a symbol of identification, when you see a man with certian social behaviors or belife you can easily identify him to be from your culture, culture speaks volumes I would like to advise is to embrace our culture and traditions instead of promoting other people own. Inviting @chimaks, @doski,@jespy to join contest. Special regards to @christnenye for pulling me back to steemit.