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OFAAC: Congratulations to Star Prize Winners, Egwu Oma Dance Troupe of Ibusa

 OFAAC: Congratulations to Star Prize Winners, Egwu Oma Dance Troupe of Ibusa


Did you know that the Ibusa cultural troupes have always dominated the Anioma Cultural Festivals? 


Yes, young dancers from the community have always performed brilliantly, incredibly surpassing other performers and emerging the overall winners out of hundreds.


The recent 19th edition of the Anioma Cultural Festival took place in Asaba in the presence of hundreds of performers, audience and other important figures from the Anioma area among them Rt. Hon (Elder) Sheriff Oborevwori, the Delta State Governor ably represented by Sir Monday Onyeme, the Deputy Governor.


In the end, the Egwu Oma Dance Group of Ibusa amazingly came first and won the star prize. The second position would go to Aguba Royal Dance Group of Ubulu-Uno while the Seat of Wisdom Dance Group of Kwale came third.


It was not the first time an Ibusa dance group would be overall leaders though. During the 2017 edition of the Anioma Cultural Festival at Arcade Ground, Asaba, Ayolo Troupe, another dance group from Ibusa won the best overall performing group? 


The group was so excellent that it was competitively unmatched, beating the rest of the groups in their hundreds, actually over 300 other troupes.


In the same year and competition, Otu Ofu Chukwu Anyi Ri Nma of Agbor-Obi emerged the 1st runner-up while Onu Anioma of Owa Alero with the occupational dance genre was the 2nd overall best performer.  


You may be shocked that this Ibusa feats went unmentioned in Ibusa. The Ibusa society especially the traditional class and other lovers of culture in the community should not only recognize people who promote the people's culture but work to preserve the people's dying cultures. Part of the responsibilities of the traditional class should be to raise and encourage people who will take after them.


Congratulations to Egwu Oma Dance Group of Ibusa. Thank you, young dancers for making our Ibusa community proud, demonstrating that when it comes to dance culture, Ibusa still stands as number one in Anioma.


- Pen Master

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