Praise for Book on Eyo Festival | Pelu Awofeso On The Road

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:21:48 +0000

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Broadcaster and multiple award-winning journalist Anike-Ade Funke Treasure says she dreams of a Lagos where visitors and tourists would be handed a copy of "White Lagos: A Definitive and Visual Guide to Eyo festival" as part of their cultural experiences of the city.

This she said at the public presentation of the book in July 2017, in the presence of the then Lagos State Commissioner for Information, Mr Steve Ayorinde.

The #EyoFestival is the cultural alter ego of Lagos, celebrated mainly in memory of a Lagosian who, while alive, contributed to the growth and development of the state. On another level, it is hosted to honour a highly placed visitor or to mark an important milestone, which is the case this time around.

“The Eyo day is always a day of pageantry and gaiety in #LagosIsland. The day is the climax of a series of events, which by tradition herald the advent of the play and has – on that day – Lagos Island agog with millions of spectators, watching resplendently dressed masquerades parading the major streets of #IsaleEko.

And though it is a day-long event that the public sees, the festival is actually preceded by many days of systematic preparations, planning and eventual performance, all involving the Isale Eko community of Lagos Island where the festival is domiciled, the Oba of Lagos, all the white-cap chiefs, heads of families and entire households within and outside the nation.

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