Social Life
The Republic takes its celebrations seriously, the owambe spirit with feathers. There is a colour of the year (everyone somehow already knows it), a storytelling seat under the mango tree, and a national institution for ending quarrels with shared grain.
The Calendar
Events of the season
- Hatch-day8 June 2026
Mama Gold's Hatch-Day
Officially 'a small gathering.' Actually the full Republic under the mango tree, three rounds of the shade-tree song, and a presidential proclamation read aloud twice, as is now traditional.
Expected attendance
- Club & clinic21 June 2026
Joint Sprint Clinic, Open Session
Champion and minister, side by side, teaching starts to chicks. Free. Loud. Muddy. The unofficial motto is borrowed from a certain first-time layer: 'I did my best.'
- Community5 July 2026
Open Day at the Reconciliation Bench
The Ministry of Social Affairs' proudest institution: quarrelling parties share one handful of grain in the designated shade until the quarrel gets bored and leaves. Walk-ins welcome.
Expected attendance
- Storytelling12 July 2026
Sunday Storytelling (weekly)
Every Sunday, low branch, mango tree: Mama Gold tells the week's history 'from the time before the water tank,' with corrections from Yèyé Àlàbá and heckling from nobody, twice.
Expected attendance
- National festival26 July 2026
The Feather Gala
The Republic's grandest evening, feather displays judged by Elder Yeye Alaba, music directed by the Vice President, and 'brief remarks' that are neither. Aso-ebi rules apply in spirit: this year's colour is sunlight gold, and everyone somehow already knew.
Expected attendance
- National festival15 August 2026
The First Grain Festival
The harvest-season thanksgiving, when the first sack of the new grain is opened by the eldest citizen and tasted, by law and by love, chicks first. Followed by the year's most relaxed queue.
Expected attendance