Towulade Akinale, Oba Olufemi Ogunleye, has admonished the youth in Owu Kingdom to celebrate this year’s Egungun (Masqurade) Festival with caution and restrain from causing disquiet anywhere.
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Oba Ogunleye explained that the annual Egungun festival in Owu Kingdom is a spiritual rebirth for the people to reconnect with their ancestors who had cared for them while alive. “Our departed ancestors, according to our culture, are incarnated into deified personalities, known as Egungun through whom we are blessed with intercessionary prayers.
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Oba Ogunleye who spoke while receiving the Akinale ancient masqurade at his Palace before leaving for Abeokuta to join other Owu masqurades at Olowu’s Palace, advised the youth and handlers of the masqurades to continue to protect the cultural values of our forefathers so as to sustain our traditional heritage.
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The 2022 Egungun festival of the Owu people has begun in earnest with series of masqurades in colourful attires bedecked Olowu’s Palace in Abeokuta.
