How do Africans celebrate the New Year?

New Year customs in different African countries;

1, Ethiopia: Burning bonfires to celebrate the harvest.

The Ethiopian New Year is celebrated every September 1 1 or 12. People dressed in bright holiday costumes, each holding a bundle of dry wood, happily gathered in the square to light a bonfire. Everyone sang and danced around the bonfire to celebrate the New Year. In rural areas, every festival, men and women should wear national costumes made of hand-woven soft white cloth and congratulate each other door to door.

2. Nigeria: Take a bath and play with water

On New Year's Eve in Nigeria, in some rural tribes, people light torches to welcome the New Year. Boys and girls all went to the river to take a bath and play with water, and fell in love until the early morning. On New Year's Day, everyone can have fun and be free from tribal precepts.

3. Tanzania: exorcism and blessing.

On New Year's Eve in Tanzania, every Swahili household along the coast will explode popcorn with charcoal and scatter it in every corner of objects in order to drive away demons and pray for happiness. On New Year's Day, people immediately crowed, and girls wore colorful skirts and sang folk songs from door to door. After breakfast, drums and music sang together, and men, women and children flocked to the beach to take a bath to show that they could wash away the filth and welcome the New Year healthily and happily.

4. Cameroon: Throw away the garbage and have a good meal.

On New Year's Eve in Cameroon, people will stay up all night. Early the next morning, every family removed the garbage from the house and had a nice meal to mark the beginning of the new year.

5. Sudan: Old people dance and young people sing.

On New Year's Day, the Sudanese people enjoy themselves and hold various celebrations, such as literature, games and dances. Different from ordinary days, old people dance and young people sing.

6. Egypt: "New Year's Rising Water"

Egypt regards the day when the Nile rises as the beginning of the new year, which is called the "Rising Water New Year". In Croute, people put a table at the door to welcome the New Year. Seven or eight dishes are served with cereals such as soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat, and there are many green plants, which symbolize abundance. The more you give to God, the more you will get in the new year.