New+Yam+Festival

The New Yam Festival is a time to feast and prepare for all of the new yam that will come the year after. It is a time that represents a fresh new year of yams. Every one would host parties for distant relatives to eat and drink. There is so much food that even if one had a large group of people from all sides of the family, there will always still be food left. Everyone would throw out the old yams to make room for the new and to symbolize a new beginning.