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Alguazas City Council, through its Department of Equality, is, with the city council Cotillas Towers and the Ministry of Health and Social Policy of the regional government, one of the organizations that have collaborated in the development and promotion of the Festival Annual Cultural the "Assembly Igbo 'Association, composed of over 1,500 Nigerian Ibo immigrants residing in the Region of Murcia, celebrated with a big crowd on the afternoon of Saturday, October 18 at the Auditorium Municipal "John Bath" from the neighboring town Torrena.

Exhibition of dance, music, art and cuisine typical of this African ethnicity based in Nigeria, highlights of this event held at the Municipal Auditorium "John Bath" Towers Cotillas

This event, scheduled as an initiative to clear multicultural and social integration and a roster of guest of honor made by the Ambassador of Nigeria in Spain, Da Bianca Ojukwu;

Governors and Royal Highnesses Southern Region of the African country ,;

Nwachukwu Anakwenze, President of the International Assembly of the Igbo;

Ferry Enwo Igarewey (President of Ohanaeze);

Nwankwor Oliver (President of the European Community of the Igbo, Christian Onourah (Enyianam) and Emeka Igwe Malife, Ohanaeze Ndigbo President Murcia, and Councillors of the City Councils Equal Towers Cotillas and Alguazas, Gloria Fernández and Dólera María Dolores Hernández García, respectively, offered attendees a large repertoire consisting of exhibits representing ancestral dances and music of the Ibos -held Group Dance Association "Igbo Assembly" of the Region of Murcia and activities the "African Live Band", art and culture and tasting the cuisine of African ethnicity (seated in Southeast Nigeria and comes to represent 17% of the total population of this nation in the Gulf of Guinea) and Murcia folklore performances were hand huertana Peña "El Rincón Pulpitero" Cotillas Towers.

Alguazas hosts among its inhabitants a prominent contingent of Nigerian Igbo fully integrated into the social life of the town

The municipality is home alguaceño among its inhabitants to a significant contingent of Nigerian immigrants belonging to the Igbo people, which are fully integrated into the social, cultural and economic life of the town where they develop throughout the year a large range of activities and consistent and dynamic participation in events and high profile proposals and draft Alguazas between neighbors such as traditional festivals, implementing training workshops, conferences ,.

In the words of the mayor of Equality alguaceño Local council, María Dolores Hernández García, "which is why with full conviction, we can define as a municipality Alguazas integration and opportunity for all. And for this reason we believe that the major route integration of immigrants is the existence of a plural society and individual integration, in which everyone, without losing its roots and, through their own efforts, of this town feel and achieve the objectives it has set coming to Spain in order to create a common, shared space, a community of citizens alguaceños identified with common ties because people who come from other places are also important in the positive direction of growth and progress Alguazas part. And with this purpose so this Consistory turns entirely on initiatives such as the Annual Cultural Festival which was held cone remarkable success of organization and participation. "

Note that the Igbo are one of the most widespread ethnic groups in Africa -constituida for 25 million people and where most of its members are in Nigeria but other settlements in other nations such as Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alguazas