Cultural-Tourism Advocacy through Eyo (Adamu) Festival and Costume: An Artistic Exploration of Opambata and its Linear Inflection

Abstract

There is a saying in African context: "One must come out of one's house to begin learning." We are surrounded in life by unlimited range of learning opportunities from formal to informal. Festival among the Lagosians especially the Eyo is well observed with grandeur. This paper is geared up by the need to correct the falsified statement, notion, assertions and grandiose of some foreign researcher as regard religious situations, facts and values in Eyo Adimu festival and its socio-economic significant. It also appraise the symbolic, functional and linear inflection of Opambata in Eyo (Adamu) festival of Lagos Island not overlooking the historical background, socio-cultural and spiritual value of the festival as well as the overall Yoruba cultural development. The research is historical and descriptive in nature. It hinged on oral interview, observation, personal communication, literatures, periodic and books. The oral interview and observation which include the data gathered from the custodian of Eyo, the worshippers, cult members and elders formed the primary data.