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Kyegh Sha Shwa Festival
DEC 26TH – 27TH 2023
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Kyegh Sha Shwa
Literally, “Kyegh Sha Shwa” means “Chicken with Sesame”. It is however, a choice delicacy of the Tiv of Central Nigeria; a soup made of chicken and thick sesame (Benniseed) sauce. The Tiv people best savour this delicacy with pounded yam. It is indeed a very popular dish.
KYEGH SHA SHWA CULTURAL INITIATIVE
Vision
Tiv communities self-inspired towards collective advancement in unity, love, reconciliation, and communal living
Mission
To foster peace and sustainable community building through cultural celebration, advocacy, peacebuilding, education and empowerment
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Cultural Celebration
Coexistence
Shared growth
Communality
Conviviality
Reconciliation
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The biggest Tiv cultural festival organized annually across two days to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the Tiv People worldwide.
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The KSS Volunteer Program was launched in November, 2018. At this time, the KSS festival was in its 4th edition.
The Festival has grown in the number of people attending since its inception in 2015.
Prior to 2018 when the Volunteer Programme was instituted, planning and all activities at the festival were carried out by a Central planning Committee led by the Chairman, Shadrach Teryila Ukuma.
About the festival
“ka ityem imôngo Mbagbera ve fe iywa ye”.
Leveraging on the popularity of this and the near-worship sentimental attachment that the Tiv have with this dish, the Very Rev. Fr. Solomon Mfa Ukeyima conceived of it as a fine rallying point where Tiv sons and daughters would come together,
reason together to grow together – a kind of reawakening of the great communal spirit that drives them, as beautifully couched in one of their proverbs, “ka ityem imôngo Mbagbera ve fe iywa ye”.
Fr. Solomon Ukeyima, a humanitarian Priest of the Roman Catholic Church, who has felt with excruciating concern, the unfortunate circumstances in Tar Tiv, where disunity, hate and disaffection has been alarmingly on the rise in dangerously malignant proportions, decided to experiment the idea with his parishioners at the St. Francis Catholic Mission, Daudu, Guma Local Government Area, in November, 2015.
Kwagh u ikyegh sha shwa ka a doom joo
Iorver Nathaniel Aondoakura
KSS Attendee
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Rev. Fr. Solomon Ukeyima
The intiator of Kyegh sha shwa
Upcoming Events
All activities are scheduled and set for your participation and information
27
Dec2021
10
Tar Ukpe Forest, Yandev-Gboko,
Kyegh Sha Shwa 2021
December 21
Start:
December 27, 2021
End:
December 27, 2021
Kyegh Sha Shwa 2021
December 22
Start:
December 27, 2022
End:
December 27, 2022
Day 2 of Kyegh Sha Shwa
December 22
Start:
December 27, 2022
End:
December 27, 2022
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