THE GREAT IWUDE IJESA FESTIVAL: WE MAY EMULATE, BUT NOT REPLICATE OR COPY 'OJUDE OBA'.
THE GREAT IWUDE IJESA FESTIVAL: WE MAY EMULATE, BUT NOT REPLICATE OR COPY 'OJUDE OBA'. By Omole Oluwasegun Culture is viewed and known as the way of life of a particular set of people, the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society. It is the code of manners, language, religion, rituals, values, symbols and arts passed down from generation to generations. A people can thus be identified or identify themselves through their culture, learned and shared through one generation to the other. Akin to culture is the cultural tradition of a particular set of people, which refers to the inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior. This brings me to the important issue of the recently concluded "OJUDE OBA" of Ijebu Ode, and with respect to the Great IWUDE IJESA FESTIVAL which is celebrated annually by the people called, IJESAS. A lot of people carried away by the hyped dress-mode and costumes by the participants a