Mexico, maize and the Day of the Dead – By Owei Lakemfa

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I attended for the first time, the  Day of the Dead festival.   It was at the Mexican Embassy in Abuja. The stairs leading from the embassy gates down to the swimming pool reception area was lit  with over seventy candles.

There were photos of the dead. In the reception hall were two prominent photographs. To the left  was that of Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian nationalist and  women leader who passed away in 1978.

The photograph on the right was that of Ifigenia…

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