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SEE HOW ANIOMA PEOPLE DRESS ON THEIR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE THE ERA OF USING OUR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE TO PROMOTE ATTIRES OF OTHER GROUPS IN NIGERIA IS GONE

SEE HOW ANIOMA PEOPLE DRESS ON THEIR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE
THE ERA OF USING OUR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE TO PROMOTE ATTIRES OF OTHER GROUPS IN NIGERIA IS GONE
Today is Saturday, conventionally set aside for marriage ceremonies. Awareness on how our Anioma brides and grooms attire themselves during their traditional marriage has fast spread and entrenched. We no longer promote other group's cultural attires because we want them to promote our own instead.
I say many thanks to our Anioma cultural advocates on this day because our labours to preserve as well as promote the good cultures of our Anioma society have never been in vain. Noticeable now is that in time of our traditional marriages, we costume ourselves in Akwa-Ocha which brings out our god-given beauty.
A few moments after her traditional marriage in Umuodafe, Ibusa on December 28, inside the Agokei palatial home, I visited former Miss Amaka Thelma Agokei, the bride. I was rather late; but I met this beautiful bride together with her bevy of beautiful ladies that composed her bridal train still costumed in pure Anioma attire and it was all eyes on them. As the bride wondrously dished smiles to me, my eyes were fixated on her nice Anioma attire made for the traditional marriage.
Everything seems to have changed very fast in Aniomaland. Our sons and daughters now dress in our cultural attires in time of their traditional marriage. When our bride and groom want to marry, they dress in our attire. When a groom comes from any group other than our own, he pleasantly dresses in our attire because he must first follow our own culture of dressing.
I, Pen Master, am bringing you these beautiful pictures to see how our brides costume themselves during our traditional marriage.
Ain't they beautiful? Even our elders admired them on that day. Our culture is our pride and we treasure preserving them for the future generation because it is what we owe them.
I am saying Happy Married life to former Miss Amaka Thelma Agokei now married to the Ogbechi family of Ogbeowele in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria.
The Anioma are a group in Nigeria and together with Urhobo, Ijaw, Itsekiri and Isoko, they make up Delta State.  
Congratulations to the Agokei family.





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  1. UnknownFriday, 26 June 2020 at 05:24:00 GMT-7

    My younger brother's wife,chioma,hails from ibusa,delta state

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  2. Anyasi EmmanuelWednesday, 28 October 2020 at 11:46:00 GMT-7

    Mr Emeka Esogbue,the pen master and the wordsmith. I commend your commitment in the promotion of Anioma culture. Thank you brother. Your pen will never go dry in Jesus name.

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