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CELEBRATING GREAT AWANIANS G reat feats often call for celebrations. It is either an individual feels highly excited and decides to beckon on friends to join him in the celebration. A community as a whole can as well call up a celebration to mark happy moments. Awa is a community known for celebrations. Traditional festivals (especially new yam and harvest festivals), child birth, funerals (especially passage rites of great achievers), etc are moments of celebrations in Awa. To day, the news of the hour in Awa is an epoch celebration loading to explode (as my big brother – Ndubisi Obikeze described it). It is a season aptly captioned by the organisers as Rhythm of Honour. It is indeed a day of honour – not just for a few persons but the entire Awanians. It is a day to do a dance of a lifetime.  Rhythm of honour shall throw Awa agog as we shall roll out the drums and throw rhythmic dancing steps. It shall be a day of Onye agbaghi n’okpa, okwee n’isi. No...