On Saturday, August 27, The New Yam Festival took place at Poole High School hall.
The New Yam Festival, or Iri Ji as it is called in Igbo, is a cultural celebration held in August symbolizing the conclusion of the harvest season.
The Igbo people are an ethnic group found in the southeast of the Nigeria. Its language is one of three major official languages of Nigeria with, approximately 44 million people speaking it.
