Masquerade day in my town/ by@rich9090

in hive-177276 •  3 years ago  (edited)

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Hello it's good to be here beautiful @steem lovers I'm here again with my wonderful update of what is happening in my town right now
The name of my place of staying is called, ifa-ita in akwa ibom, uyo Nigeria.

In this town they usually have a festival that is called masquerade festival which is usually held on August 2 October of each time of the year.

This tradition of theirs has been a longtime tradition that even their forefathers have observe and even Bow down to, up till now. and up to now, the youth are still in it, seems it is a custom in this place that each member of the family need to belong to this masquerade units whether small or big provided you're a male child. he will be initiated into the masquerade theme.

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IMG_20210927_145150_297.jpg@rich9090 with ifa-ita masquerade youth

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In this community people celebrate the masquerade as if, is a Christmas. And during that time you will see different kind of masquerades in their different shape, size, height, as they parade the whole community with a lot multitude of crowd following them.
I hope to update you more on this famous great season day of masquerade, as the deal Day is yet to come.
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