Odunde Festival
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The Odunde Festival Each year, the second Sunday in June, ODUNDE takes place covering 12 city blocks.
- ODUNDE was created in 1975 by Lois Fernandez and Ruth Arthur. The festival attracts up to 500,000 people annually and is the largest African American street festival held in the country. The 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 Streets to the Schuylkill River where an offering of fruit and flowers is made to Oshun, the Yoruba goddess of the river.
- ODUNDE is for everyone, we look forward to seeing you and your family this year!!!
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- Twitter: @ODUNDE365
- Facebook: THE-OFFICIAL-ODUNDE-FESTIVAL
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In The News
- Lois Fernandez, Co-Founder of Philly’s ODUNDE Festival, Dies at 81, NBC-10, August 14, 2017.
- As summer heat hits Philadelphia, Odunde Festival brings South Street to life, Newsworks, June 12, 2017.