How Africans celebrate the New Year.

New Year customs in different African countries:

1, Ethiopia: Burning bonfires to celebrate harvest

The Ethiopian New Year is on September 11 or ??12 every year. People dressed in bright festive costumes, each bringing a bundle of dry firewood, gathered together happily and lit a blazing bonfire in the square. Everyone sang and danced around the bonfire to celebrate the New Year. In rural areas, during the festival, men and women wear national costumes made of hand-woven soft white cloth and go from door to door to congratulate each other.

2. Nigeria: Take a bath and play in the water

On New Year's Eve in Nigeria, in some rural tribes, people light torches to welcome the New Year. Young men and women all went to the river to bathe, play in the water, and talk about love until early morning. On New Year's Day, everyone can have fun without being bound by tribal rules.

3. Tanzania: Dispel demons and pray for happiness

On New Year's Eve in Tanzania, every household of the Swahili people along the coast will use charcoal to pop corns and scatter them in every corner of the house to drive away evil spirits and pray for happiness. On New Year's Day, people get up as soon as the rooster crows. Girls wear colorful skirts and go from door to door singing folk songs. After breakfast, drums are played, and groups of men, women and children go to the beach to take a bath to show that they can wash away the filth and welcome a healthy and happy life. new year.

4. Cameroon: Remove the trash and eat delicious meals

On New Year's Eve in Cameroon, people stay up all night. Early the next morning, each family clears away the rubbish in the house and then has a delicious meal to signify the start of the new year.

5. Sudan: Old people dance, young people sing

Sudanese people enjoy a day of fun on New Year's Day and hold various cultural, artistic, games, dancing and other celebration activities. Different from usual days, the elderly dance and the young sing.

6. Egypt: “New Year with Rising Waters”

Egypt regards the day when the Nile River floods as the beginning of the New Year, which is called "High Flood New Year". The Kroot people of Egypt welcome the New Year by placing a table at the door with seven or eight plates containing grains of soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat, as well as many small buds of green plants, which symbolizes abundance. The more you give to God, the greater your harvest will be in the new year.