Ikeji Aro is a yam festival celebrated annually to mark the harvest of new yam in Aro. Aro celebrate the festival in the month of September, at times the celebration crows into early months of October. The end of Ikeji does not mark the beginning of another farming season, as it opens a recess that leads into […]
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‘Shut up; don’t address him as “mazi” yet,’ was an exclamatory rejection made by an elderly man to a younger man who had addressed a fellow middle-aged man sometime in the past as “mazi,” during a socio-cultural gathering at Amuvi, Arochukwu. Then suddenly, a ‘boy’ of about eighteen years told his compeer-friend at Isimkpu village
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Traditional marriage in Arochukwu Kingdom is an institution of a special type, well respected and treasured; it has been in existence as long as the Aro kingdom itself. It has a lot of Aro culture and custom built up in it. Some aspects of its norm have undergone some changes and modifications with time, yet
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Thursday November 16th, 2000. Africa hall, International Conference Center, Abuja. 9.00 AM prompt. Security arrangements were at its best. Only guests with the official invitation cards were allowed into the hallowed chamber of the hall. The honorees, their relations and invited guests turned up in their very best. All kinds of regalia were on parade.
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Every civilization rises, flourishes and then with time either crumbles or endures, so is history which is a major component of human civilization. An epoch in Aro history and civilizations came to an end in 1987, when His Royal Highness, Eze Kanu Oji died. His reign was long and peaceful – Sixty-Nine (69) years in
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The Ikeji is the yam festival celebrated to mark the end of an old year. The Aro celebrate Ikeji in the month that coincides with the Gregorian month of September, although in some years the celebration time-table spills over into early October. The end of Ikeji does not necessarily mark the beginning of another farming
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Mazi Vincent Ogbonnaya Okoro Asi Eko Oke Nnachi, CFR, Eze Aro VIII of Arochukwu was born on March 6th, 1932 at Nde Oke, Oror, Arochukwu to the late Mazi Okoro Asi Eko Okenachi who died in 1952. His late grand father- Mazi Asi Eko Nnachi was the Eze Aro V of Arochukwu. A holder of
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