Uzodimma deserves accolades for reviving Ahiajoku Festival – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

By Emmanuel Iheaka

The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Senator John Azuta-Mbata, has commended Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, for reviving the Ahiajoku Festival.

Azuta-Mbata gave the commendation erstwhile the Planning Committee of the 2025 Ahiajoku Festival visited him astatine the Ohanaeze secretariat successful Enugu. He assured that the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation would afloat enactment successful the taste event.

He emphasized that the festival provides a captious level for heavy conversations among Ndigbo connected culture, language, and survival, urging the organisers to present an fantabulous outing that would further elevate Igbo taste visibility.

“I hereby endorse the 2025 Ahiajoku Lecture Festival connected behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. We shall cooperate to guarantee a palmy festival. I volition beryllium determination successful person. Any relation we are expected to play, we shall gladly play it. Our radical indispensable beryllium heard.

We are encouraging studies and probe connected Igbo connection and culture. We person acceptable up a committee for that,” helium said.

The Ohanaeze person lamented UNESCO’s study classifying the Igbo connection arsenic endangered, stressing the request for urgent measures to avert taste erosion. He disclosed that his medication had instituted professorial endowment chairs successful tertiary institutions to thrust probe successful Igbo history, tradition, and language.

Earlier, the Director General of Ahiajoku Centre and Secretary of the Planning Committee, Nze Ray Emeana, traced the festival’s root to 1979 nether the precocious Governor of Imo State, Chief Sam Mbakwe, who envisioned it arsenic a level for Igbo introspection and the projection of Igbo worldview.

Emeana besides highlighted the contributions of salient intellectuals who person graced the Ahiajoku podium, including Professors MJC Echeruo, Chinua Achebe, Ben Nwabueze, Donatus Nwoga, Adiele Afigbo, Laz Ekwueme, and Barth Nnaji, noting that their works helped found Ahiajoku arsenic Africa’s premier taste festival of ideas.

The 2025 Ahiajoku Lecture, scheduled for Friday, September 26 successful Owerri, volition beryllium delivered by Most Rev. Godfrey Onah, Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese.

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