Leboku — the New Yam Festival

WHAT THE SOURCES SAY The Wikipedia article on Ekori describes Leboku as the New Yam festival, or harvest thanksgiving, and states that it is celebrated in Ekori during the month of September. The Yakurrwatchblog account of Yakurr history refers to a festival of the Yakurr communities as one of the largest in Africa, without giving further detail. That is the whole of what those two sources establish. Both are secondary web sources, and one of them carries Wikipedia's own notice that it cites no sources at all. WHAT THIS PAGE STILL NEEDS Almost everything that matters about Leboku is not above. The meaning of the festival, and what the new yam signifies. How the date is set each year, and by whom. The rites that open and close it. Who has which role, and how those roles are held. What is cooked, worn, danced and sung. Which age grades take part, and how. What the festival looked like in previous generations, and what has changed. What elders remember of it from their childhood. None of that has been recorded here, because none of it should be written from a web page. It belongs to the people who keep the festival. If you can describe any part of it — from your own knowledge, from what you were told, from photographs or recordings you hold — the archive would welcome it. Use the correction button below, or the contribution page.