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During the festival in Osogbo, Oshun is offering a meal made with shrimp, spinach, onion, pepper, eggs, lettuce, endive, yellow rice, tamales, olive oil, corn meal, honey, sweets of all kinds , crowbars gofio with honey, white wine and fruits of river. On its behalf are slaughtered goats capons, hens Angola, jicoteas pigeons and turtles.

The legend states that Oshun is the orisha of fresh water, is the goddess of the river that crosses the city of Osogbo where he has the largest number of believers. Its name comes from the Yoruba Osuna and their devotees say that unless the world turned into Ibu Kole (kind of vulture or vulture), interceding with Olofi (the creator) to desist from destroying humanity, the rain stopped and avoided the great flood. Read the rest of this entry »

Oshun Festival held in Nigeria in late August (it starts on the last Friday of the month), when the rainy season ends. It is the feast in which childless women worship the goddess of fertility, is the most important of the Yoruba, one of the main ethnic groups in Nigeria, is holding a religion that is as old as the Africa.

During the festival crowds praying hard with the belief that in those days the goddess grants favors, annual traditional festivities and prayers to the orisha Oshun are made on the banks of the river that bears his name where you leave flowers and other offerings for the goddess, women ask for health, prosperity and more children. Read the rest of this entry »

The festival fishing Arugungu be the annual festival and being the more vibrant compared to the other festival. The festival will be celebrated in the city of Kebbit Arugungu state, one of the tourist attraction. The festival will be celebrated as a tribute to Sultan Dan Mu’azu when he did visit the area in 1934. Since then it’s celebrated every year around February and March. In this local festival people make with fishnets present in the water. They’re accompanied by drummers who then high driving drum beat of the fish to the water surface. Canoe race, fishing competition naked just jump also be a part of this festival.

The Antilogwu be a notable art dance dance forma.el be done with the help of foot march with heavy step by step. Great training be needed to perform this dance and be conducted in Igbos in Anambra state. Read the rest of this entry »

Nigeria festival owes its origin the traditional religion of Nigeria. The festival will be be celebrated from the practice of the main religion in Nigeria. The different festival of Nigeria be celebrated throughout the year and be celebrated with joy. This festival Nigeria Nigeria be denotative element of culture. Masquerade and dance play an important role in the festival of Nigeria.

Nigeria Festival

Some of the eminent Nigeria being the Eyo festival, the Shadi, Durbar, Shango and so on. Read the rest of this entry »

January 1 New Year’s Day.
February 9 Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan).
Apr 18 Eid al-Kabir (Feast of Sacrifice). July 18 Mouloud (Prophet’s Birthday).
October 1 National Day.
Christmas December 25 to 26.

Note: Muslim festivals vary according the lunar calendar during the lunar month of Ramadan that precedes Eid al-Fitr, Muslims fast during the day and night can interrupt normal business activities.

Many restaurants are closed during the day and there may be restrictions on smoking and drinking. Any disruption may continue into Eid al-Fitr him. Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Kabir (Eid al-Adha) may last from two to ten days depending on the region.

Oshun Festival takes place in the city of Oshogbo, begins the last Friday of August. It’s time to make a colorful fiesta in honor of Oshun river god that a few centuries ago, saved the inhabitants of various pests. Guide is still a guard.

The ceremony includes the lighting of sixteen lamps burning all night to the sound of drums and rhythm of the dances and songs. The final is a huge carnival in the city and around the palace Oba. Oshogbo is also known for its sacred grove, a Yoruba shrine sculpture spectacular.

It was about the beginning of the Argungu Fishing Festival, held this year between 12 and 15 March. Are just four days of celebration, but certainly, if we scheduled a trip to Nigeria, the Festival is a reason to visit the city and attend a festival Argungu impressive, will leave indelible images in our memory.

The festival, with some interruptions, is from 1934, to celebrate the end of hostilities between two African ethnic groups. On more impressive is the time of the fishing contest on the river, when thousands of men and women line the shore to compete for the largest dam fishing. Upon hearing the starting signal, they pounce on the water and within an hour have to catch the biggest fish, a piece that at times tends to reach 75 kilos.

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Could be defined as a festival of beauty, but not exactly. In Niger, a celebration to try and find single men couples of ethnic Woodabe, but the funny thing is that they have the final say women are. The event, requires that single men made a real effort to showcase their strengths and attributes, from dancing with jumps up to a production that includes the most original and wearing makeup to entice companies future.

The Wodaabe are a small subgroup of the Fulani ethnic group, a community of nomadic pastoralists who inhabit the south of Niger to the north of Nigeria, northeastern Cameroon and the west region of Central Africa. The Wodaabe are known for their habits of dress and ceremonies showcasing a particular way of beauty, both men and women. In fact, the conduct could be considered an obsession with beauty and charm that reaches very striking ways.

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This Nigeria city is the cradle of Yoruba art and art produced over the last 30 years than anywhere else in Africa.

The best time to visit is during the Oshogbo Oshun festival (last week of August), when held dances and sacrificial rites.

Oshogobo is famous for its sacred grove and an area where there are numerous monumental sculptures and shrines dedicated to different gods Yoruba. Many of these shrines are on the verge of collapse, but since the 50 Austrian sculptor named Suzanne Wenger has been working to restore these shrines all its splendor.