OzikoroIli Ji Nkpor Obododike: The Indigenous Agricultural Ritual Cycle
Within the broad Igbo cosmological worldview, “New Yam Festival” is, strictly speaking, an inadequate description of the complex indigenous ritual systems through which different Igbo communities mark the conclusion of the annual agricultural cycle. What is commonly presented today as one homogeneous festival is better understood as a plurality of community-specific ritual observances, each governed…