IJEBU HISTORY & THE OJUDE OBA FESTIVITIES.
The Ijebu are a Yoruba people famous for their ancient traditional of fabric making. The Ijebu made clothes were a prized possession in both West Africa and the Americas where the clothes were taken to by the Portuguese and British who visited the coast of West Africa as far back as the 1500s and made reports of a "Jabou kingdom" behind Lagos known for their prized and durable clothes known as "Jabou cloth".
Ijebus traded with Ilaje and Itsekiri middlemen who also introduced some of these clothes into the Niger Delta where it influenced the clothing traditions and fashion of groups there like the Ijaw who fancied them, There, they attained the status of prestige clothing i.e the 'Pelete bite' and 'Ikaki bite' or 'Tortoise cloth'
The Ojude Oba festival is a festival celebrated by the Yoruba people of Ijebu-Ode, traditional headquarters of the Ijebu.
This annual festival evolved from the older Odeda festival and usually takes place the third day after big Eid (Iléyá), to pay homage and show respect to the Royal Majesty, the Awujale of Ijebuland.
It is a festival whereby different cultural age groups are known as regberegbe, indigenes, their friends, and associates far and near parades at the front of the king's palace regardless of what religions they subscribe to. In the Yoruba language, Ojude Oba means King's fore-court or Kings Outing.
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