Oghu Age Grade Amakor pulls massive crowd.
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The Oghu Age Grade organized by Amakor youths had come and gone but the echoes still remain. The event which was held on Thursday 18 August 2022 in Amakor Primary school popularly known as Mission Amakor really started late and ended with big fun and entertainment. The heavy presence of masquerades during the event was a clear testimony that the people of Amakor are really promoters of culture.
By the time Umuaka Times arrived at the venue of the event, only a handful of children was present and in no distance time, the members of the Amakor Age Grade stormed the arena in a cultural procession. After their arrival, they went through the ogbo oghu and exchanged greetings with the elderly and the young and took off immediately to usher in the umu okorosha who have been selected to dance in the historic oghu event.
The biggest attraction and expectation during the event was the arrival of Unu’s son. Unu is the masquerade which appears during the yearly festival. According to Unu’s first son, he came to deliver the message from his father to the entire Amakoor people and Umuaka in general. Unu thanked the people for their resilience and positive achievements in today’s world. He finally informed them that his dad, the great Unu Amakor will be with them in the next Oghu Age Grade celebration come 2023.
The event which is also known as Oghu Di Okpara Unu made waves across Europe, America and Asia. Mazi Obiora Eguzozie known as the Ebubedike, who sponsored Umuaka Times to cover the event disclosed to Umuaka Times that the moment Umuaka Times was posting the updates from the event, he was also busy sharing them on other platforms for Amakor sons and daughters both in Nigeria and Diospora to follow and enjoy the good cultural moments from home. Nze V.C Mmeremikwu, an American based Akalite and a great son of the soil was among those who celebrated the event in far away America via the internet. Nze Mmeremikwu who is the chairman of Amakor Patriots, together with Ebubedike, a businessman based in Mozambique, told Umuaka Times that the Amakor sons and daughters will always support the cultural events in the community. They both expressed their deep appreciations to the organizers of the event on the peaceful manner the event was conducted. They prayed to God to keep the people of Amakor and the entire Akalites alive to witness the next oghu when Unu himself will make a dramatic appearance come 2023.
