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Podcast: Da Urban Conservative with Chaz NealBrought to you by The Leon Block Media
Episode: DAC:ARM YOURSELF WITH KNOWLEDGE 6/12/23 ODUNDE
Description: Come chat with Chaz and Jontel as they discuss ODUNDE which was created in 1975 by Lois Fernandez. The festival attracts UP TO 500,000 people annually and is the largest African American street festival held in the country. The ODUNDE festival, whose concept originates from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, West Africa, celebrates the coming of another year for African Americans and Africanized people around the world. It is an occasion highlighted by a colorful procession from 23rd and South Street to the Schuylkill River where an offering of fruit and flowers is made to Oshun, the Yoruba goddess of the r...