Thursday, 11 July 2013

N’cwala Festival Zambian

Date: 24th February
place: Zambia's Eastern Provin


At first, it's better to  have a glance to Zambia. Zambia is in Southern Africa, east of Angola with 8 neighbors (Angola, Botswana,Namibia,  Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique,  Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of Congo) with 14,309000 . Dance and music is the main part of Zambian life and they use drum and drumming plays in most common traditional festival, ceremonies, celebrations and community communication.



The Ngoni people celebrate the fist harvest of their products in each year that named  N'cwala ceremony. This festival held each year in a village named Mutenguleni that 12 local chiefs and their best dancer come as group and present their warrior dance to the chief. The dancer's cloths should be from traditional like animals fur and feathers. The chief will choose the best group of dancer in the end of festival. Also, the people feast on beef and corn with music.



 The Paramount participate in this festival with dancing. As a symbol of first harvest food, the chief drinks the cow blood killed at the N'cwala for their people to start harvesting.

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