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Two major Festivals celebrated by the Igbo people are the Igbo New Year festival (Igu Aro), due around 16th February, the planting season when the king, the Eze Nri in the Nri area, tells the Igbo to go and sow their seed after the next rainfall, and the Harvest festival (Emume Ọnwa-asatọ) in the eighth month.

The Nri Igbo yearly counting celebration known as Igu Aro was marked on the 26th February 2022 as the beginning of the 1023th year of the Nri calendar. Alright the new year was said to have started on the 20th of February, the celebration was done on the 26th.

The Igbo Lunar calendar is based on the 13 lunar months of 28 days each plus one extra day known as “a year and a day”.

Each of these months is made up of seven Igbo weeks “izu asaa”, each “izu” is made up of four market days: Eke, Orie, Afo and Nkwo.

The appearance of the full moon in February, 2022, marks the beginning of the Igbo lunar Calendar.

These are the 13 Months In The Igbo Lunar Calender:

1- Ọnwa Mbụ (3rd week of February)
2- Ọnwa Abụo (March)
3- Ọnwa Ife Eke (April)
4- Ọnwa Anọ (May)
5- Ọnwa Agwụ (June)
6- Ọnwa Ifejiọkụ (July)
7- Ọnwa Alọm Chi (August to early September)
8- Ọnwa Ilo Mmụọ (Late September)
9- Ọnwa Ana (October)
10- Ọnwa Okike (Early November)
11- Ọnwa Ajana (Late November)
12- Ọnwa Ede Ajana (Late November to December)
13- Ọnwa Ụzọ Alụsị (January to Early February)

Pictures from Igu Aro

Igu Aro 2022

Igbo Amaka

Igu Aro Igbo 2022

I envy this people

Why is this not on the front page? Igu aro Igbo ga adi.

Till today in my country home, we still do the ogwugwu festival towards December-January. All the different clans or villages have their own unique themes. It all start with each village that want to start their own festival to go to the central market and place an omu( sacred palm frond). Once anyone does this significant act, it signalled to other villages that after the next market day that a particular village want to start their festival.

People used to think that those Masquerades that full everywhere during Christmas season especially in Anambra state is for Christmas celebration. No its been like that for ages. The difference is that the new generation are adding entertainment and other stuffs to what their fathers have done for more than 1000 years.

People will say "ka anyi jee chuo afo", let's say good bye to the year.

At Mods lalasticlala and seun this should have made front page.
Nairaland should or must promote our cultural heritage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ds5_sk_iy4


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGeWAOklF-E


Igbo culture sweet ooooo

This is colourful and splendid