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Customs & sacred sites

Where festivals, masquerades, shrines and old customs really came from.

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8 stories

01 Custom · Benue

The Stripes That Say Tiv

Tiv A'nger cloth →
02 Custom · Kwara

The Women Who Shape Ilorin's Clay

Dada women potters →
03 Custom · Kogi

The Night Ebira Ancestors Come Home

Ekuechi in Okene →
04 Custom · Benue

Did Spirits Teach Him This Theatre?

Tiv puppet theatre →
05 Custom · Kogi

The Igala Festival That Returned After Decades

Ocho festival, Idah →
06 Custom · Kogi

The Hands That Give Ogidi Its Colour

Ogidi among the rocks →
07 Custom · Kogi

The Iron That Promised Freedom

Lokoja's Iron of Liberty →
08 Custom · Niger

The Bida Families Who Turn Bottles Into Beads

Masaga glassmakers of Bida →