NEW YAM FESTIVAL
CORE VALUE: CULTURAL HERITAGE (NEW YAM FESTIVAL) Culture they say is the people's way of life... But nowadays are people really living their culture or mimicing other people's way of life for good or the opposite? Culture is the core value of any population It's a heritage passed on from one generation to another... In the West African region particularly Nigeria and precisely in the South Eastern region dominated by the Igbos. New Yam Festival is their core cultural heritage. This symbolical culture- new yam festival popularly known as "Oriri Ji Ohuru" is a festival that unites all Igbo population at home even at diaspora. The New Yam Festival is an annual event that occurs usually between August-September. It is believed that the New Yam Festival symbolizes newness of which nature has sustained for them so that they do not starve and go malnourished... In the ancient days, the people cultivate their hectares of farmlands i