ORGANISERS of the Oodua Heritage Week are focused on the aim of their cultural project, especially in a faraway place like Ireland, a part of the world where African culture is still seen as primitive. Yoruba culture, like other African cultures, is in sharp decline, they are saying. But rather than merely pay lip-service to it, they are desirous of doing something radical about. The weeklong festival will hold at the Hilton Hotel, Dublin and other counties in Ireland from September 5-10, 2011 with the theme ‘Yoruba: Yesterday, today and tomorrow’.
For Egbe Omo Oodua, it was time Yoruba culture got a promotional boost with a weeklong festivity in a foreign land to impress on Yoruba, other Africans, the host community and the rest of the world the wholesome values that Yoruba has to offer the world. In collaboration with the group, Active Change, Egbe Omo Oodua will be taking some eminent Yoruba cultural icons to Ireland to give full expression to Yoruba culture in a carnival-like festivity that will include a symposium, fashion parade, cuisine, film show, owambe party, music and dance and many more.
Copyright, Blaise APLOGAN, 2010,© Bienvenu sur Babilown
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