‘Let’s build festival village,’ architect enthuses, outlines other advices for proposed Ogbomoso culture day
Femi OGUNLANA
A culture enthusiast, Abimbola AdeOluwa Oke, an architect, has offered pieces of advice towards having a memorable culture cum tourism day in Ogbomoso, Oyo state, the maiden edition of which is slated for December 2024.
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Ogbomoso Insight reports the committee for the event was recently inaugurated by the Soun of Ogbomosoland Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye.
Reacting to the news in ogbomosoinsightonline.com,’ comment section, via abimbola_oke@yahoo.com, Oke hailed the initiative while advocating the festival in the first year should last two weeks instead of the one week proposed.
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“Ogbomoso culture and tourism festival is a laudable idea and I commend the Kabiyesi for his vision,” he wrote. “However I think a week long will be too brief for the kind of impact we desire it to make. I will suggest a 2 week long event in the first instance ”
He said this would enable a thorough event that would accommodate more programmes while in the future should be extended to one month during which the uniqueness of various communities in Ogbomoso zone would be showcased.
“We will then strategically grow it to a one month event, bringing in all the villages in Ogbomoso and naming a day to them to feature their uniqueness and specialties.”
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Oke proposed a culture and tourism village be built of temporary materials and stuffs. “We can consider a unique venue that can be called ‘OGBOMOSO CULTURE AND TOURISM VILLAGE’ for the event. It could be of fabricated temporary structures that could be dismantled afterwards.”
He then added, “Let there be a special ‘Ogbomoso culture and tourism festival lecture series’ incorporated in the event to be delivered by erudite Ogbomoso sons and daughters every year. I’ll make more suggestions as it comes to mind and I hope they’ll get to the committee.”
