African New Year customs of different countries:
1, Ethiopia: burning bonfires to celebrate the harvest
Ethiopians New Year is on September 11 or 12 every year. People dressed in brightly colored holiday clothes, each with a bundle of dry wood cheerfully gathered together in the square burning bonfire. People sing and dance around the bonfire to celebrate the New Year. In the countryside, during the festival, men and women wear national costumes made of soft white cloth woven by hand and go door to door to congratulate each other.
2, Nigeria: bathing play
Nigeria New Year's Eve night, in the countryside of some tribes, people light torches to welcome the New Year. The boys and girls all go to the creek to bathe and play in the water and talk about love until early morning. On New Year's Day, everyone can have as much fun as they like without being bound by tribal precepts.
3, Tanzania: dispel demons, pray for happiness
Tanzania New Year's Eve, coastal Swahili households to use charcoal popcorn sprinkled in all corners of the thing, to show that disperses the demons, pray for happiness. On New Year's Day, people will rise, girls dressed in colorful dresses, door to door singing folk songs, after breakfast, drums and music, men, women and children in groups to the beach to bathe, in order to show that wash away the filth, healthy and happy to meet the New Year.
4, Cameroon: in addition to the garbage, eat a beautiful meal
Cameroon New Year's Eve night, people stay up all night. Early the next morning, families remove the garbage from the house, and then eat a beautiful meal, indicating the entry into the new year.
5, Sudan: the elderly dancing, young people singing
Sudanese people on New Year's Day to have fun all day, organized a variety of arts and culture, games, dancing and other celebrations, with the usual difference is that the elderly dancing, young people singing.
6, Egypt: "New Year's Day"
Egypt to the Nile River rose this day as the beginning of the New Year, called "New Year's Day". The Egyptian Krut greeted the New Year by placing a table in front of the door, with seven or eight plates offering grains of soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat, as well as a number of small shoots of greenery, which symbolized abundance. The more things you offer to the gods, the greater the harvest of the New Year.