Wow, this is good you know. Another reason being that when people go to farm then, the lazy ones will not participate. Thus, they found this ceremony as a reward for hard work and a way of encouraging lazy people to farm. In my dialect we say ‘mgbawara onye aka oku’; meaning, I did not stop anybody from working hard.
New yam festival is now even celebrated in the African Diaspora by the descendants of those who experienced the Maafa.
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Awesome 😎. Thanks for sharing this
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What about the young men carrying a cow and pulling the roots of a tree up? And the stories about a young man honouring his whose father died
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Wow, this is good you know. Another reason being that when people go to farm then, the lazy ones will not participate. Thus, they found this ceremony as a reward for hard work and a way of encouraging lazy people to farm. In my dialect we say ‘mgbawara onye aka oku’; meaning, I did not stop anybody from working hard.
thanks for the feedback, very educative