Be informed!
Today is ŌKĀ Festival in Kabba (Owe me le bó)

While Ōrō Èmidin is post-Harvest meant to thank the supreme God, the Paramount Ruler of Heaven, (The Olu of Òrun, contracted to Òl'òrun) employing the intermediary of His terrestial saints and angels, the deities we call Èbòra, Ōka is anticipatory, thanking God in expectation of a bountiful grains (especially beans) harvest.

There's the need to clarify the difference between Òlòrun and Èbora in the Owé/Yoruba believe system.
Èbòra are invisible terrestial messengers. There are many Èbòra, but there's only one Òl'òrun. Sacrifice is offered to Òl'òrun through His Messengers.

In the same vein, just like we don't genuflex or pray to the alter or the grotto, but to the unseen omnipresent God, it's not true that our forefathers were worshipping trees, idols, stones, etc. Their alters are their meeting places with their God's Messangers.
It's obvious that our indigenous religions have not had the benefit of transmission from the old to the new testament as well as the Calviniste reformation which has eliminated intermediaries still recognised by the orthodox sects.

Meanwhile, since culture is inseparable from a people's existence because it encapsulates their spiritual and corporal identity, and giving the current wave of self-identity, it's salutary that especially we Catholics now observe the Èmidin. It's to our evolutionary profit that we downplay the "animist" contents, ie the existence of Èbòra and celebrate Èmidin, Òka, Égunròdo, Abò festivals as unifying identitive forces.
Happy Ōka to all Owé sons and daughters at home and in the Diaspora! Ōrō a gbégha ooooo! Ashè!

- Francis Onaiyekan