By Imogen
African Celebrations
Types of Celebrations
There are two different types of celebration: Tradional such as:
HarvestReligiousMusicalCultural
Modern such as:SportBook fairsRacingRally
Two Traditional Celebrations
*Ghana deer hunting festival
*Festival of the desert-Mali
Ghana deer hunting festivalThe deer festival is done to honour the god of the people of
the Winneba called ‘Penkye Out’.
Ghana deer hunting festivalThe festival happens in May and it is very popular
Ghana deer hunting festivalThe people give God a gift-which is a deer which they catch
with there hands
Festival of the desert- MaliThis is a 3 day festival near a place called Timbuktu.
It came from Touareg (twa-reg) festivals which were a place for decision making and exchange of information between the different communities
Festival of the desert- Mali30 artistic groups are invited from around the world
to present their work
* http://www.festival-au-desert.org/index2.cfm?m=3
Festival of the desert- Mali
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The next is in January 2014
References
*http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/tourism/aboakyer.php*http://www.festival-au-desert.org/index.cf
m?m=0&s=2
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