Agiri fetsival

Agiri Festival

Agiri festival is a rich cultural heritage which is celebrated by the people of the Bille Kingdom, River State. It is a day where the Bille people exhibits hospitality.[1] It is an event at Bille Kingdom, Degema local government area, Rivers State where indigenes adorn themselves with stunning cultural regalia and troop out in masses.[2] Traditionally, visitors and security escorts are given George wrapper and other traditional attires to wrap themselves in during the festival that abolishes disease, promotes peace and unity.[3]

General Knowledge

Originally, the earlier migrators of Bille Kingdom were said to have migrated from Benin kingdom and settled in Rivers State, they saw and met people celebrating their various festivals and came into an understanding to keep and cherish this festival inorder to promote peace, unity and top of all, good health.[4] Though the festival was earlier celebrated annually, however, recently the festival celebrated by the people of Bille Kingdom agreed on celebrating this event in every four years due to its financial consumption.[5]

References
  1. Bille, Trine; Mignosa, Anna; Towse, Ruth (2020). "Teaching Cultural Economics". doi:10.4337/9781788970747. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Ajuru, Mercy Gospel (2018-10-31). "Ethnobotanical Inventory of Oguru-ama Town, Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria". Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology. 19 (2): 1–13. doi:10.9734/jabb/2018/13576. ISSN 2394-1081.
  3. Pasman, Hans J.; Kirillov, Igor A., "Conclusions with Respect to Research Demands", Resilience of Cities to Terrorist and other Threats, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 509–520, ISBN 978-1-4020-8488-1, retrieved 2023-05-05
  4. "A history of the FUNG kingdom and the Turkish period down to 1871 A.D. With Appendices, I The Chronology of the FUNG Kings. II Extract from the Portuguese of Paez's Historia Aethiopiae", A History of the Arabs in the Sudan, Cambridge University Press, pp. 354–438, 2011-03-17, retrieved 2023-05-13
  5. Newson, John; Newson, Elizabeth (2017-07-12), "Meal Times and Manners", Four Years Old in an Urban Community, Routledge, pp. 205–242, ISBN 978-0-203-79160-8, retrieved 2023-05-13
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