At last, veteran musician and culture promoter, Chris Mba
has unveiled his latest project-Alaigbo Cultural Festival.
The event took place on Saturday, July 8, at Nike Lake
Hotel, Enugu, with the endorsement of Ozo Dr. Ferdinand Anikwe, Director
General, Center For Black and African Arts and Civilization, CBAAC.
Mba said the unveiling marked the beginning of preliminary
activities of the festival. “The project team presently is making contacts with
all relevant stakeholders across the world aimed at hosting the biggest
cultural festival in Igboland.
“One of the major pre event activities is the Nite of the
Igbo Princess, an evening with beautiful and intelligent Igbo maidens which
will hold in seven venues across Nigeria. The event is packaged to sensitize all
Igbo about the forth coming festival. The grand finale of the event will
feature the Queen Alaigbo International Beauty Pageant.”
Ala-Igbo International Cultural Festival is designed to
resurrect in every Igbo personality the love, passion and interest for our
cultural heritage and values. The cultural festival will showcase the never say
die spirit of Igbo people, visual arts, music, cultural displays, dance forms
as well as the attire, cuisine, language dialects and hospitality of
the Igbo Nation.
It is also aimed at showcasing the outstanding contributions
and achievements of the people and governments of the South East through
tourism, culture, visual arts, fashion and the hospitality industry, Mba said.
High Chief Engr. Agujegbe Chamberlin Adiaso, Grand Patron of
Ala Igbo Cultural Festival who flagged off the unveiling ceremony said the
initiative is also a “platform for creative and intellectual interaction
amongst men and women of Igbo extraction on strategies towards youth
development, economic advancement, cultural heritage and tourism promotion in
the south east. To use culture and tourism as a tool to showcase the investment
opportunities in the region as well project the image of the region as a
commercial hub in Africa.
To create an enabling environment for the unification of all
Igbo’s across the globe geared towards establishing a functional networking
base between Igbo’s at home and in the Diaspora.
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