2025 Igbo World Festival of Arts and Culture

All Roads Lead To St. Simon Igbo Landing & Brunswick This Weekend of July 25

All roads lead to St. Simon Island Igbo landing site and Brunswick Georgia this weekend for the 2025 and 12th edition of Igbo World Festival of Arts and Culture. This fiesta organized by the Council of Igbo States in America (CISA) this weekend of July 25 and 26, 2025. The spiritual, ritual, and sacred communal with progenitors of Igbo landing will be solemnized at the historic Igbo landing site at Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island with most festival activities taking place at Seldon Park, one hundred Genoa Martin Dr. Brunswick Georgia, USA. Undoubtedly, Igbo landing, a significantly historic site at Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island has grown in spiritual importance, given the 1803 powerful, and evocative bravely displayed by 75 enslaved Igbos’ who rather than submit to enslavement rose in defiance to overpower their enslavers and opted to walk back to their Igbo homeland.

This year’s festival is meant to commemorate 223 years of this special event as well as provide for ndi-Igbo to commune and re-establish relationships with the Gullah Geechee descendants of Igbo landing survivors that now populate the communities in the region. CISA Igbo World Festival has become another milestone in Igbo reconnections with their kith and kins across the Atlantic. It is known for its vibrant fun-filled indoor and field activities that parades the beauty of Igbo cultural heritage, and which displays to the world the peculiarities of Ndigbo, their roots, culture, and cross-continental influences across the Americas.

All lovers of culture are invited to experience unique and fabulous cultural exhibitions of Ndigbo outside Nigeria. The two-day fiesta features intellectual presentations, artistic display, thrilling cultural dances, masquerades, Igbo cuisine, exquisite Igbo fashions, and many others. The reconnection and naming ceremony, which remains one of the most emotional highlights of the festival, will take its pride of place. The reconnection is a ritual in which African Americans who traced their ancestry to Igbo communities in Nigeria (through DNA testing) and have chosen to reclaim Igbo roots are cleansed, take Igbo names, and re-connect with their Igbo siblings and their Igbo homeland.

The festival Royal Father, His Majesty, Eze Chukwuemeka Eri, Eze Eri, the 34th and the team of custodians of traditional institutions have arrived from Nigeria for the event. CISA is happy to welcome them all including delegations from London, South Africa, and the Caribbeans. Our own Njeje TV has also arrived to stream the festival live for the world. CISA President, Dr. Josephine Aguoji, Chair Board of Presidents Abagana Regent Onowu Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze and the Festival Planning Chair, Mazi Emeka Nwosu have all reaffirmed the readiness of the CISA to make this year’s festival very phenomenal.

Chief Mathias Mgbeafulu
CISA Publicity & Media Director
chino08@rocketmail.com