The Omabe Festival is the central masquerade festival of Enugu Ezike. It involves elaborate masquerades, drumming, dance, and ancestral veneration. The festival purifies the community, entertains, and reaffirms identity.
Links the living to the ancestors, preserves oral history, entertains, and reinforces communal bonds.
Omabe has been celebrated for centuries, with origins tied to Nsukka-area ritual cycles. It survived colonial interventions and Christianization, adapting in practice and meaning.
Masked performances, drumming, singing, public processions, community gatherings in market squares and festival grounds.
