Eluku
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Eyibi/Eluku Festival is an event celebrated by towns and settlements in Ikorodu area of Lagos state and some other parts of Yoruba land. It is an annual traditional festival that is of patriarchal nature, as it is only celebrated by male descendants who are paternal natives to the town. It is also to be noted that it is for males who are specifically natives of Ikorodu.
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It sits within the topics Cultural festivals in Ikorodu, Cultural festivals in Lagos and Cultural festivals in Nigeria.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Part of
- culture of Nigeria
- Country
- Nigeria
- Location
- Lagos State
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- different from
- Egungun
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Eyibi/Eluku Festival is an event celebrated by towns and settlements in Ikorodu area of Lagos state and some other parts of Yoruba land. It is an annual traditional festival that is of patriarchal nature, as it is only celebrated by male descendants who are paternal natives to the town. It is also to be noted that it is for males who are specifically natives of Ikorodu.
The Eluku festival is a version of the general Yoruba Oro festival.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eluku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.