03/12/2025
so that's how i walked into the Igbo Day celebration in Lokoja thinking it was just another event on the calendar on 1st of December… but chai, I left with my heart full and my spirit completely recharged! 😭❤️
My first Igbo Day outside the East, and Lokoja proved that distance means nothing when culture calls you home.
The moment I stepped inside the stadium, behold lots of colorful canopies, the drums started talking, masquerades started misbehaving, and the whole place just smelled like village square on a big festival day. The energy? 🔥🔥🔥
Everywhere you turned—red caps, isi agu, george wrappers, coral beads, warm smiles, tight hugs, and variates of sweet Igbo dialects that can make you laugh even when you don’t fully understand the joke.
And then… FOOD entered the chat.
My people, I lost small home training 🤭.. Cause that was all I remembered to capture.
Each local government came with food known by their people. Mine prepared echicha, rice, and bitterleaf soup.
Well it won't be complete without our original PALMWINE all the way from the village 😉🤭
Everything was just THERE. Honestly I forgot I was supposed to vlog or snap.
Igbo amaka.
Culture is beautiful… but culture + food? UNBEATABLE.🔥
Grateful to every hand that cooked, every leg that danced, every voice that sang. Lokoja Igbo union, una too much! Ndị be anyị 💪🏾🫶🏾
Who else was at Igbo Day Lokoja? Tag yourself, let’s gist!
If you missed it… sorry o, better luck next time 😛
