Alue-Do, Violence Is Not Culture

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In the city of Ozoro, in southern Nigeria, the Alue-Do festival is held every year, an ancestral rite of the Isoko people — an ethnolinguistic group of more than two million people — to commemorate the fertility and continuity of the community. This year, however, the celebration resulted in a wave of attacks against women and girls that shook local social networks and forced the authorities to intervene. Despite the seriousness of the events, t…