After Evala last week it was the turn of Ana-Ife people start rejoicing in the plateau region.

The 38th edition of Odon-itsu, the feast of yams is Saturday at Municipal Stadium Atakpamé attended by Minister of Culture and Arts, Hamadou Yacoubou.

Three prefectures are involved in this festival: Eastern mono, Anié and Ogou.

Friday, the spiritual leader of Earth and guarantor of customs and custom Ana, Iba Somone Fotoki Atchikiti odoe IX, conducted the ritual prayers to give permission to Ana Ife people to consume the new yam.

The ceremony took place in Iwaya, in the convent and sanctuary Ana Ifê people.

Yam is the main crop of the population Ana.

Before consumption, the premises must be submitted to the spirits of ancestors.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdG5KAeg5M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnapJFuer9o


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJKRtX7u_vk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CobGDYCQshE

History of Ana-Ife People in Togo

FACTBOX: A Brief History of Odon Itsu party
History remembers that Ifè who left the locality
Ilé of Ife (Nigeria), through Kétou (in Benin) and
Tchéti Atakpamé arrived in 1700, a mountainous site
sure that protected against possible pursuers.
Arriving in Atakpame, the Ife have brought with them,
planted a root which fed them by producing many
tubers. It is in recognition to their deities
would have donated this root, and that Ifè
other allied communities, celebrate Odon Itsu meaning
in Ife language: "yam festival."
On this occasion, the tradition is that the beginnings of yam
are first offered to the deities before
consumption, to thank them for having promoted
abundant crops, and benefit from their protection and
their blessings on the families and the next planting season.
Beyond this traditional look, the celebration of Odon
Itsu is an opportunity to return to the fold of all
son of Grand Ogou, today marks not only a trait
union but a unifying element in many communities

Thank you for this good information.

I take it that Ana Ife is Ara Ife and Odon-itsu is Odun Isu.

Im wishing them well and Happy New Yam festival!

tarano:
History of Ana-Ife People in Togo

FACTBOX: A Brief History of Odon Itsu party
History remembers that Ifè who left the locality
Ilé of Ife (Nigeria), through Kétou (in Benin) and
Tchéti Atakpamé arrived in 1700, a mountainous site
sure that protected against possible pursuers.
Arriving in Atakpame, the Ife have brought with them,
planted a root which fed them by producing many
tubers. It is in recognition to their deities
would have donated this root, and that Ifè
other allied communities, celebrate Odon Itsu meaning
in Ife language: "yam festival."
On this occasion, the tradition is that the beginnings of yam
are first offered to the deities before
consumption, to thank them for having promoted
abundant crops, and benefit from their protection and
their blessings on the families and the next planting season.
Beyond this traditional look, the celebration of Odon
Itsu is an opportunity to return to the fold of all
son of Grand Ogou, today marks not only a trait
union but a unifying element in many communities

E ku Odun Isu (Odon Itsu) ooo, Happy New Yam festival ..... Oduduwa a gbe yin.
Please we need you around here more, to tell us about the Anago (Yoruba) communities of Togo. Merci Beaucoup.

Yorubas in nigeria should build strong relationship with our kin in Benin republic and Togo

Thank you all.

The Ana-Ife are mostly found in the area called Grand Ogou in the Plateau region of Togo. There are some in the Central region of Benin. There are roughly 250,000 - 300,000 in Togo. Ede language subgroup member.

Lexical similarity of Ana-Ife: 78% with Yoruba [yor] of Porto-Novo, 87%–91% with Ede Nago of Ketou [xkb].

Greetings in Ana-Ife
Ifè [ife] (Togo. Benin.)
Koní morning greeting
Kabo morning greeting
Edijé morning greeting
Kosã daytime greeting
Kalɛ' afternoon and evening greeting
Aleni evening greeting
Kútsɛ nɔní greeting to a person you saw earlier today
Kútsɔɔná greeting to a person you saw yesterday
Kútsɛ idzɛta greeting to a person you saw three days ago
Kútsɛ idzɛlo greeting to a person you saw more than three days ago
Ò tsɛ reè? how are you?, "are you fine?"
N tsɛíire reply to Ò dzí reè
Ò wá bɛɛ? greeting, "are you there?"
Káàbɔ welcome greeting
Kúùr welcome greeting

http://users.elite.net/runner/jennifers/Country%20Greetings%20Togo.htm

Yoruba say Ekaro...Ana-ife say Ekuoni

tarano:
Yoruba say Ekaro...Ana-ife say Ekuoni

Very good.
I am curious about something.
According to the Slave trade records, there is a group in the Benin Togo-Area that contributed a lot of slaves into the Atlantic slave trade into the Americas.
This group has been variously spelled as Chamba or Tchamba. There is a Chamba in Taraba state of Nigeria and Cameroon, However we know this chamba is not the one being referred to in the slave trade records, because these particular Chamba were 'exporte' to the new world through the Bight of Benin.

The only other Tchamba is in Togo, near Bassila and the Manigris & Kamboles. I suspect these unknown chamba tribe in the slave records are Yorubas of Togo. Can you tell us what you know about the Chambas/Tchamba area? I am asking this because The proportion of Yoruba slaves sold to the Americas might have been grossly underestimated because everyone is busy limiting Yoruba to Nigeria.

This is their Language. There are also christians among Ife-Ana.

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C64698


http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C64701

tarano:
This is their Language. There are also christians among Ife-Ana.

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C64698

My Guy, this is just plain Yoruba na..
Why don't they just call it that?

The Tchamba were originally from Northern Ghana. Infact they were the aboriginal population of Dagbon. But due to pressures from Neighboring Kingdoms, such as the Mossi Kingdoms, Hausa Bakwai, and later the Ashanti, the population dispersed to northern togo and Benin.

I'm sorry to say but they were the acephalous tribe of the Kingdom of Dagbon. They had no political head. They were the catchment tribe for slaves by the Sahelian kingdoms. The lowest ranking tribe in the Dagbon Kingdom. Hence, a good number of them would have been enslaved.

This is not unique to the Tchamba. A good number of tribes in the sahel belt of west Africa suffered the same fate. They were too far from the coast and the desert. Hence, their political development was limited.

tarano:
Yoruba say Ekaro...Ana-ife say Ekuoni

Ekuoni makes perfect sense in standard Yoruba of Nigeria
That would be "good day"

True but Ana-Ife borrowed words also from their neighbors.

tarano:
True but Ana-Ife borrowed words also from their neighbors.

Well, it's normal to borrow words from Neighbors while staying true to ur original language