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Mwaka Kogwa Festival
🇹🇿 Tanzania
Mwaka Kogwa is the traditional Swahili New Year festival of Zanzibar.
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Nile festival
Celebration of river life with boat races, music, and crafts on the Nile.
Rusinga Cultural Festival
Annual celebration of the Abasuba people's culture
Tchiloli Festival
A masked theatre, music and dance tradition of São Tomé that re-enacts the medieval trial of Charlem...
Eritrean National Festival (Festival Eritrea / Expo)
National event representing all nine recognised Eritrean nation groups: Tigrinya, Tigre, Saho, Afar,...
Mwaka Kogwa Festival
Mwaka Kogwa is the traditional Swahili New Year festival of Zanzibar.
Moussem of Moulay Idriss al-Akbar (Zerhoun)
An annual pilgrimage and saint's festival honouring Idris I, founder of the Idrisid dynasty, at his...
Empango (Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom)
Banyoro (Nyoro) of Bunyoro-Kitara, with the Batooro of Tooro as a parallel
uMhlangano wa Maseko Ngoni Cultural Festival
Annual cultural festival of the Maseko Ngoni
Morija Arts & Cultural Festival
Lesotho's premier arts and heritage festival
Empango (Tooro Kingdom)
Empango is the Tooro Kingdom's coronation anniversary festival, held to mark the enthronement of the...
Ekigangu Kya Busoga
A residential youth retreat run by the Busoga Kingdom in Eastern Uganda that teaches children and yo...
Lamu Cultural Festival
Swahili culture celebration that focuses on preserving endangered maritime technologies, vernacular...
Festival Donia
Festival Donia is Nosy Be's flagship annual music and cultural festival, built around salegy and the...
Agbogbo-Za (Agbogboza)
The largest traditional festival of the Ewe people held each September to commemorate their ancestor...
Festival National des Arts et de la Culture
National Festival of Arts and Culture
Marula Festival (Buganu Ceremony)
Eswatini's royal first-fruits ceremony, known locally as Buganu, in which the Lutsango women's regim...
Gerewol Festival
Traditional Wodaabe cultural festival
Gbagba Festival
Harvest festival of the Ewe of Agou in southern Togo, marking the close of the farming year and the...
Festival de l'Aïr
Cultural festival in the Aïr Mountains
Wanyambo Festival
Traditional cultural celebration
Cure Salee
Festival of Nomads
Wodaabe Gerewol Festival
Traditional courtship ceremony and cultural festival
Date Festival of Erfoud
Celebration of date harvest in Tafilalet region
Igue Festival
Annual royal festival of the Benin Kingdom
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