Contest Participation || Steemit Nursery Community|| My Country's Culture - Nigeria || by @happinness

Hello friends, my name is happinness. And I am a native is ibibio in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, in African continent.
In my community, we have several culture, and I will be talking about just two of it.

EKPO (Masquerade)

NKIM ITONG

EKPO (Masquerade)

The EKPO culture originated in ibibio and anang community still in Akwa Ibom State, but it has been adopted by the Igbo people who resite in the east side of Nigeria.

This culture is a been celebrated during the Yam festive period.

The next culture we'll like talk about is called

NKIM ITONG

NKIM ITONG as the name implied is a culture which specifically belongs to the Uruan people in Akwa Ibom state. They are the ones who owns this miraculous tradition they display.

Though it looks much terrifying, but don't get it twisted, this is tradition that have been practiced in many generations in Uruan and you will only witness this in Villages like Idu, Mbiakong and Ifiayong.

Looking at most of the people in the pictures are not harmed but they are getting freed from demonic spirit who have been tormenting them for ages.

As a matter of fact, so many things occurs in this traditional festival like;
● Planting of plantain sucker and it grows that day and bear fruit that same day
● Turning leaves to money
● Sand metamorphosed to Cooked rice
● Putting water into basket and none drops
● Human killed by gunshot , buried but he will come back to the burial ground alive, etc.

So many people especially strangers see it as a diabolic practice but of a truth, it is the tradition of Uruan that harms no one.

This above listed Culture are been celebrated as a traditional display which takes place once in every two years.
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