OzikoroCultural Resistance in Umulumgbe’s Odo Ritual: The Spirit Still Dances
In Igbo, they always say, “One who doesn’t know when the rain started will not know when it stopped.” This wise statement accurately describes what the Umulumgbe Odo masquerade has been facing since the colonial people came to shake the land with their Christianity and Western lifestyle. The Odo masquerade ritual, a sacred tradition…