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🇸🇿 Umhlanga Reed Dance Day in Eswatini
Traditional reed dance ceremony
Date in Eswatini
September 4
Duration8 days
Annual traditional ceremony where young women gather reeds to present to the Queen Mother
Public life in Eswatini
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
Types of celebration
CulturalTraditional
On this day in African history
- ? Nigerian Mariam Eniola Bolaji becomes the first African to win a medal in badminton at the Paralympics
- ? Nigerian Mariam Eniola Bolaji becomes the first African to win a medal in badminton at the Paralympics · Nigeria
- 1968 Nigerian troops capture the city of Aba, Biafra, during the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1998 UN Tribunal on Rwanda sentences Jean Kambanda, Rwanda's former prime minister, to life for his role in the 1994 massacre.