MANDYENG FESTIVAL OF BEROM

Samuel Davou

Abstract


Cultural festival is a portrayal of diverse cultural activities of a people, as well as their glamour of monumental merriments, usually with displays of various aspects of the people‟s culture in form of music, dance, dressing, occupation and religion of the people. This is periodically celebrated with the intention of sustaining cultural heritage, activities and development. Cultural festivals are mirrors of a community; they market its values through a celebration that serves as a unifying force which binds the people and their ways of life. In further description, a festival is an event, a communal observable fact, and practice in almost all human cultures. In such events, there are usually a variety of colorful displays of drama, music and dance. In such displays, there exist certain innermost meanings underlying them; the chronological ancestry as well as the involvement of the natives, members of neighboring communities and casual visitors to the event whose presence makes it a pure tourist affair (Falassi, 1987 and Abioye, 2017).

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