Ekpe Festival Umuahia
This masquerade festival is peculiar to Umuahia people and it will be celebrated on 23 January 2024. It is a lively cultural festival that attracts people from in and outside the state.
The Ekpe festival has existed for millenniums and which involves so many kinds of Ekpe masquerades performing different kinds of cultural dance.
Here male and female (old and young) dress in their cultural attire, the male must tie a piece of George (wrapper) to make up for the cultural attire.
Male children who have been initiated into Ekpe masquerade, and are skilled in playing the cultural music, show their expertise in their culture while the masquerade performs the dancing.
People appreciate the performances of the masquerade, players and other individual dancers by donating money to them while the music is on.
The apex of the cultural festival is when the Ekpe masquerade will use a cutlass and behead a goat at a strike.
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