This festival of color and glamour also known as ‘Celebration of Life’ is celebrated by the Uturu community of Abia.

The festival showcases several dances and songs by 47 cultural troupes.

The troupes thrill the audience their performance.

Their costumes and hairdo are quite traditional even as their faces are coated with local powder.

Its intriguing to note that only virgins constitute the troupes.

The four-day festival holds in December