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ABSTRACT
Festival of many types serves to meet specific needs as well as to provide entertainment. These types of celebration offer a belonging social or geographical group. The study revealed the role of traditional festivals in promoting inter-group relations, while the objectives includes, the origin and the concept of festival, the historical origin and the socio-cultural importance of traditional festivals in any community, the role of traditional festivals in promoting inter-groups relations and factors responsible for the decline of traditional festivals, in Nigeria. The study revealed festivals served as a memory aid and preservation of culture as it reminds the people of their traditions and in recent times also helps in fostering unity among diverse origin and interest. The study also revealed that festival cut across social and economic life and it has the potential of bringing of people from diverse background to together. thus promoting intergroup relations. Such is the new yam festival in Igboland, Egungun festival in Yoruba land, Aba, Irekpa, Igue festival in Edo state, etc in Nigeria.
