Our Festivals Can Exist Side By Side Christianity, Ikwele Celestine Okafor Speaks Ahead of Ibusa People's Ine Festival
Our Festivals Can Exist Side By Side Christianity, Ikwele Celestine Okafor Speaks Ahead of Ibusa People's Ine Festival His Royal Eminence, Chief Engr. Celestine Okafor is the Ikwele of Ibusa and also the Ibusa community's Chief Priest. The Ikwele, by his traditional office, is the custodian of the Ine Festival which the community is preparing to celebrate. In this interview with Ibusa Community Advocate, PEN MASTER (EMEKA ESOGBUE), His Eminence shares his experience of the festival with other forms of culture with readers. He also speaks on the expected role of the government toward social-cultural growth and development of the community, using the instrument festivals and offers historical opinion on the cultural relationships shared by Umejei and Ikenga. More interestingly, he also renders an oral historical narrative on the role of the Ikwele in Ibusa wars with other communities and how he also prepares the warlords to defend the community. Excerpts: Pen Master: You have be...