Describe your most memorable vacation, Christmas holidays in my village.
December festivities in Igbo land started before Christianity came to Igbo land.
We call it “Mmemme” which means “Celebration Or Merriment” and it differs from place to place but it falls around Christmas time and still celebrated all over Igbo land.
Most of our weddings are also around Christmas time
Chieftaincy coronations are at Christmas time
An Igbo man always sees himself as a sojourner wherever he is outside of his homeland.
He could be born and bred in Lagos, or America but he’ll forever see himself as an Igbo man and never regards his land of sojourn as his home.
Throughout my childhood, I grew up in several cities in Nigeria but we always went to the village every December 20th and stayed there till January 3rd or so.
It was a time of great merriment, cousins, In-laws and friends came home from all over the globe and celebrated Christmas in the village.
I remember the traditional dances, the moonlight dances and folk-tales, the masquerades, the crusades with films in open fields. The endless swimming at our local streams and rivers. The picking of fruits in the bushes and nearby forest without fear of wild animals and kidnappers.
Grandma made the best pots of soups for us and many other delicacies too numerous to mention.
We don’t go to sleep till around 2 AM or the fuel finishes from the generator.
Our men build their biggest homes in the village and Christmas time is a good time to relax from all the toiling in the city
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