new yam festival

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The New Yam Festival is a major annual harvest celebration among the Igbo people of Nigeria, marked by thanksgiving, feasting, traditional rites, and cultural performances to honor the yam as a staple crop and symbol of prosperity.


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Igbo people culturalPractice new yam festival