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Festivals
The Story of Eghogho: A Celebration of Manhood and Community
The History
The Auchi Eghogho Festival is a cultural reunion event for all age-groups in Auchi Kingdom. It is a festival based on the age-long manhood/age-group tradition of the Auchi people. The manhood/age-group tradition is locally referred to as “Irhua”in the Auchi dialect and it means initiation into manhood. According to folktale, the “Irhua” tradition dates back to the period when the people who occupy the present location called Auchi migrated from Benin during the reign of Oba Ewuare around the 14th Century.
The Age Group
The age group tradition over the years has remained an event every young Auchi man and woman as well as parents look forward to in anticipation. This is for the singular fact that it brings about merriments and a sense of achievements for all concerned.
It a time where the participants feel they have attained adulthood and their parents feel a sense of fulfilment that their ward has reached the age of responsibility whereby they could saddled with important tasks and decisions. “Eghogho”, connotes joy, felicitation, merriment, fun, happiness in the Auchi dialect.
Cultural Significance
The Eghogho festival is packaged to fuse tradition with modernity whereby participants and spectators alike are provided the opportunity to go back in history and rehash one spectacular aspect of the Auchi people which have gone into extinction for the younger generation to learn about their past.