Lovely Beadwork At The Swaziland Reed Festival 2018


Beautiful earrings and neck beads at the umhlanga ceremony.
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The Swati yearly Reed Dance Festival, seeks to promote purity, culture and HIV AIDS awareness.

In Eritrea, weddings are usually very interesting and colourful. It’s a ceremony many young people and families look forward to. The wedding ‘Melsi or Melse’ as it is called, is usually a two day ceremony with lots of fun and excitement. So let’s take a look at how it is done. Enjoy! When a couple…

Heritage Month is celebrated in September of every year in South Africa. It is a month dedicated to celebrating South Africa’s rich and diverse culture and heritage. National Heritage Day is on the 24th of September and has been a public holiday since 1996, to celebrate South Africa’s cultural diversity and communities. This day was…

The Umbondo ceremony is one of the rituals that must be followed in the lead-up to your big day if you are planning a traditional wedding. Umbondo is all about giving gifts in exchange for favors. Everything revolves around the bride’s family giving the groom’s family gifts and food (groceries). In appreciation for the lobola…

Moroccan wedding blankets are handmade by the bride’s mother and worn by the bride during the wedding ceremony. The bride wears the wedding blanket or “Handira” like a cape on her shoulders on her way to her matrimonial home. Some wedding blankets are even woven by female relatives of the bride, long before she thinks…

On the day of the festival, the Obi makes three appearances after being in seclusion for four days. After the early morning rituals, the trumpeters announce his entry before he shows up, fully dressed in his royal regalia, highlighted with the royal crown (okpu ododo), acknowledging the crowd that would have gathered by waving at…