Ijaw Impact Assembly

  The Ijaw Impact Assembly group's vision is centered around cultivating and championing a community of global change-makers who prioritize racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to achieve this by focusing on creating brave spaces, valuing diverse voices, and living out our values as an ethnicity. Creating Brave Spaces : This involves fostering environments where individuals feel safe to express themselves authentically, even when discussing sensitive topics like race, diversity, and inclusion. It implies encouraging open dialogue, active listening, and empathy. Valuing Voices : This aspect emphasizes the importance of recognizing and appreciating the diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions of all individuals within the community. It involves actively seeking out and amplifying voices that may be marginalized or underrepresented. Living Out Values as an Ethnicity : This suggests embodying and promoting the values of racial equity, diversity, and inclusion wit

  January ---- Kurai Bolou February ---Bara Bolou March------- Bara Biri April-------- Abamu Kori Eri Kori May---------- Numu werigha ifurugha June---------- Aya fiyai. July---------- Kala Awaran. August ------ Opu Awaran. September -- Suoyai. October ----- Bowie Biri. November --- Beni Iyeri. December --- Obudu potou..

 Source: The Dawn Journal Vol. 2, No. 1, January - June 2013 The owigiri dance originated in 1985 through a particular music composed by a foremost Izon musician in Bayelsa State, Nigeria called Professor I.K. Belemu. Although, I. K. Belemu did not invent the owigiri dance style, his song, which was responsible for the creation was more of a call to dance.  The lyrics of Professor I. K. Belemu in the Izon dialect goas thus: Lyric in Izon Language Owigiri sei mo bo emi yo  Owigiri sei mo bo emi yo E ba tie ke tie ma?         I. K. Ebi gban ogele dig ban ne sera Binyen waibo fada ke ton English Translation Owigiri dance has come Owigiri dance has come Why are you still standing? Watch closely the dance steps of I. K. B Just shake your waist and you are done Dancers, especially partygoers began to react to the music with individual dance expressions. At first, there was no significant attempt to achieve synchronism of movement or dance pattern until a man popularly called Afruruku who hai

COPIED  His Majesty king Dandeson Douglas Jaja Born on 28 April 1942. He is the first son of His Majesty king (Dr.) Douglas Jaja of blessed memory, the fourth Amayanabo (king) of Opobo. By 1977 King Dandeson started his grooming in Ibani Culture and the intricate protocol of its traditional institution. He began his succession rites in 1980, when his illustrious father King Douglas Jaja (Jaja IV), joined his ancestors.  It is a tradition that upon the transition of an Opobo King, a successor who would lead the funeral rites, must be announced by the king jaja executive authority, the highest policy making body of the king Jaja group of houses, before the burial. So when King Douglas Jaja transited, the tradition of Opobo kingdom demanded that before the King is buried, a successor must be announced because the successor would lead the funeral rites. The burial rites require that the late King wears the crown during the funeral service and the funeral religious officiant after performin