Idanre: Yoruba Mountain Climbing Festival

Wole Soyinka’s poetry Idanre and Other Poems published in 1967

Idanre was founded on the mountains as an asylum from the furious wars in Yorubaland . Oke-Idanre the first settlement sits on a level a few hundred meters over the valley floor.  The Maré (signifying ‘don’t fall’) Festival held for the seventh year running on December sixteenth 2015. The celebration praises the dim agonizing mountains and hollows of Idanre as a period solidified tourism safe house and included an early morning marathon, raffle draw, mountain climbing competition ,conventional artists, and musical exhibitions. It is a present day celebration, and there is a call for more inclusion of the neighborhood populace in future Maré Festival

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