Emeka Esogbue

 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 Cultura...

 PROMOTING ANIOMA CULTURE:THE ONU IKA EXAMPLE - Emeka Esogbue Established in 1988, the Ika Organization of Leaders, which later transformed into Onu Ika (Voice of Ika) by name, is a group for the people of Ika South and Ika North-East local government areas within the Delta North of Delta State. It holds an annual lecture in what it calls "Ogwa Ika." The Onu Ika Nigeria is an example of an Anioma group that has supported the advancement of the Ika culture in particular and Anioma in general through different programmes and different platforms available to it. It was not therefore surprising that the foremost group of the people launched the Ika dictionary also called Ekukwo Oku Nkowa in Owa in 2017. The purpose of this piece throws up the 17th annual OFAAC Festival that was spectacularly held yesterday, April 18, 2022, inside the Arcade Centre in Asaba, Delta State, and the esteemed contributions of Onu Ika. It is historic that Onu Ika, deriving its mandate from the people of...