Ojeh Society In Sierra Leone - Egungun - (Its Yoruba name )

The Ojeh is predominately a male society that emerged from the liberated Africans rescued from slave ships by the Royal Navy.
The society was founded around Oke Maure Lodge in the southern part of Freetown and the villages of the Sierra Leone peninsula during the 19th century (sierraleoneheritage).
Its Yoruba name is Egungun which missionary writers corrupted to egugu or agoogoo (sierraleoneheritage). Ojeh or Oje, the name by which it is widely known today, is the term for a society group or lodge.
In the 20th century, it spread among groups of young migrant workers outside of the peninsula, and Ojeh groups are now found widely distributed throughout Sierra Leone, for example, among the Temne tribe (sierraleoneheritage).
Ojeh 'devils' or masked dancers perform in a brightly variegated costume of coloured cloth covering the head and reaching down to the calves. The face of the masker is concealed behind a grill of netting.

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