Iloko Ijesa, a community in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State will on Saturday 21st August, 2021 hold it’s 2021 New Yam Festival.
According to the information published on the community’s verified Facebook page this afternoon and obtained by Tropic Reporters correspondent has it that the festival would hold at Mr. Odeyemi Kehinde, Chief Logan of Iloko Iesa residence by 10:00am prompt.
“This is to invite the good people of Iloko Ijesa, sons and daughters, Indigenes and non Indigenes to our annual event tagged “New Yam Festival”.
The New Yam Festival is therefore a celebration depicting the prominence of yam in the social-cultural life of Yoruba people.
The harvest of yam and the celebration of the God of the land through the New Yam festival is an epitome of the people’s religious belief in the supreme deity. The coming of the new moon in the month of August marks the preparation for the great festival, but the time and mode of preparation differs from community to community.
The New Yam festival is a highly captivating art event. The colourful festival is a visual spectacle of coherence, of dance, of joy and feasting, an annual display for community members, to mark the end of the cultivation season, a festival where the people express their gratitude to those that helped them reap a bountiful harvest.
