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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