Igbo Day In Ghana: Media Executive, MacDonald Njoku To Grace New Yam Festival As Special Guest Of Honour

THANKGOD EMEH

Just as the Igbo race celebrate the New Yam festival in Igboland to mark the end of cultivation of major farm crops in the land, especially the yam, as well as marking the successful harvest and commencement of new yam consumption across the Eastern part of Nigeria, a number of patriotic and well meaning sons of the soil in Ghana usually celebrate the New Yam Festival on 19th September of every year.

Building up to the festival this year, which is a month away, the Eze Ndigbo Ghana, Eze Dr  Chukwudi J. Ihenetu, with his cabinet has started planning in earnest to add colours to the event, which includes sending out invitations to well meaning Igbo sons and daughters world over to grace the occasion.

According to him, the New Yam Festival in Ghana is basically an exchange of culture and collaboration of various talents and strong friendship among the people.

Eze Ihenetu said the festival “is a beginning of integration of humanitarian efforts especially in a cosmopolitan environment, the education of different food, different weather, different experience, different procedures, and different processes are strong form of education, this is the strong objective of this entire project”.

One of the prominent invitees to the 2021 New Yam Festival being organized by Igbo People in Ghana is the notable publisher of 4th Estate Reporters, MacDonald Njoku.

The invitation letter stated that the call for the media executive to attend the event was duly informed by the annual display for community members to mark the end of the cultivation season, a festival, where people express their gratitude to those that helped reap a bountiful harvest.