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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