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N'cwala

February 24

In 1835 the Ngoni tribe, an offshoot of the Zulus, left South Africa and moved into what is now the country of Zambia. The festival known as N'cwala celebrates the tribe's satisfaction with its environs since that time and also marks the beginning of the harvest. This is a festival of thanksgiving and people congregate in the village of Mutenguleni, including the paramount chief, where the celebration takes place on February 24. Groups of dancers display their skills for the paramount chief, who traditionally chooses one group as having outdone the others, which is no small feat, given that Ngoni dancers are renowned throughout the region. The chief is also responsible for being the first to sample the season's new foods and blessing it for the people.

CONTACTS:
Zambia National Tourist Board
Lusaka Sq., Cairo Rd.
P.O. Box 30017
Lusaka, Zambia
260-1-229087; fax: 260-1-225174
www.zambiatourism.com

SOURCES:
CelebFestCarnFeast-1997, p. 12
WildPlanet-1995, p. 212

Celebration day: Feb 24

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No references found	Where, at the time of independence in 1964, the Lozi Kuomboka was probably the only festival of its kind recognized nationally, and even by the early 1980s only the Mutomboko and perhaps the Ngoni N'cwala attained relative prominence, by 2000 there were at least fifty such annual festivals listed in the national tourist board's website. Asserting/inventing traditions on the Luapula: the Lunda Mutomboko ... by Cancel, Robert / African Arts Patrick Mweemba's mid-1980s series of woodcuts representing cultural ceremonies shows how at this time only a handful of annual Zambian ceremonies were well-known: N'cwala, Likumbi lya Mize, Kuomboka, Shimunenga, and Mutomboko. Lechwe Trust Collection by Simbao, Ruth Kerkham / African Arts	Mzhavanadze, Vasilii Mzhavanadze, Vasilii Pavlovich Mzymta N N center N curve N display N electron N galaxy N Garin N indicator N line N rod bit N scan N scope N shell n space N star N Sukhanov N unit N Valentinov n value N wave N'-2-quinoxalysulfanilimide n'aschi N'cwala N'djamena N,N'-carbonyldiimidazole N,N'-dibenzylethylenediamine N,N-dimethylaniline N,N-dimethylformamide n- N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid N-4-isopropylphenyl-N',N'-dimethylurea N-8-1 N-acetylethanolamine N-acetylsulfanilyl chloride N-AMPS n-amylamine N-ary code n-ary composition N-ary pulse-code modulation n-ary tree n-body problem N-bromoacetamide N-bromosuccinimide n-butyl-para-aminobenzoate n-butylamine n-cell n-channel n-channel metal-oxide semiconductor	N User Map Archive N utilization substance protein B N Valentinov n value N wave N word N z N z N z N! N! N&A N&DSG N&E N&G N&J N&MIS N&N N&SP N&U N&V N&W N'-2-quinoxalysulfanilimide N'-Formylkynurenine n'aschi N'chemya N'chemya N'chemyah N'chemyah N'cwala N'Dama N'Djamena N'Djamena N'djaména N'djaména N'Djamena, Chad N'Djamena, Chad N'Dour n'gana n'gana N'ha-aitk N'ha·a·itk N'habite Pas a l'Adresse Indiquee N'hants N'hants n'importe N'importe Quoi n's n's n's n's n's of Ranvier n's of Ranvier n's of Ranvier n't n't N'tan'el N'zerekore N(C)ME N(R)

Where, at the time of independence in 1964, the Lozi Kuomboka was probably the only festival of its kind recognized nationally, and even by the early 1980s only the Mutomboko and perhaps the Ngoni N'cwala attained relative prominence, by 2000 there were at least fifty such annual festivals listed in the national tourist board's website.

Asserting/inventing traditions on the Luapula: the Lunda Mutomboko ... by Cancel, Robert / African Arts

Patrick Mweemba's mid-1980s series of woodcuts representing cultural ceremonies shows how at this time only a handful of annual Zambian ceremonies were well-known: N'cwala, Likumbi lya Mize, Kuomboka, Shimunenga, and Mutomboko.

Lechwe Trust Collection by Simbao, Ruth Kerkham / African Arts

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