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Portrait of Maasai mara man with traditional colorful necklace at Maasai Mara tribe village, Safari travel destination near Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

African woman in portrait with face painting and headdress.

Portrait of a child from the omo valley, ethiopia, wearing traditional clothes and colorful jewelry

Kampala, Uganda - May 1975: man doing the traditional Runyege dance. He has ebinyege (leg rattles) on his legs.

Cowry God present at the annual Osun Osogbo Festival held in Osun State, Nigeria - West of Africa on Friday August 9 2024

A notable feature of Ghanaian society is the enormous number of local events that take place in various parts of the country throughout the year.

Dakar, Senegal - 26 Dec 2021: Faux lions, national dance of masks in Senegal, West Africa

Portrait of a black woman with a turban on her head. In the background the city at sunset

$Tam village Benin- mars 31-2021: Gelede a form of 'Espirit performs a dance ahead of a Voodoo ceremony. They take care of the community and ask for the rains for crops.\n\nThe Gẹlẹdẹ spectacle of the Yoruba is a public display by colorful masks which combines art and ritual dance to amuse, educate and inspire worship. Gelede celebrates “Mothers” (awon iya wa), a group that includes female ancestors and deities as well as the elderly women of the community, and the power and spiritual capacity these women have in society. Focusing not only on fertility and motherhood but also on correct social behavior within the Yoruba society.$

African woman sitting in front of bamboo forest with African face painting in Aburi Ghana West Africa

Close up tween girl wearing traditional hat and beaded necklace

Guard with a knife in the small village, Senegal, West Africa

Young women and men dressed in Kente carry objects on their heads during a festival in Ghana

Portrait of a young karo boy with traditional face paint and necklace, staring intensely at the camera

The Kenyan folk dancers performing at an outdoor festival

Mijikenda Giriama villagers perform tradtional dance for tourists. Young women dancing accompanied by men playing percussion instruments. Kenya, 1975. Scanned film.

$Virei village, Namibe Province, Angola - February 28, 2025 : Portrait of a Mucubal women wearing multicolored vibrant headscarves (called the Ompota) reflecting their cultural heritage. They have their upper teeth sharpened, at tradition that takes place at their younger age.\nThe Mucubal people (or Mucubai, Mucabale or Mugubale) are a subgroup of the Herero people and leave in southern Angola. They are semi-nomadic, live around the Namib Desert and typically wear little clothing.$

Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil - April, 27, 2017 -detail of body painting and ornaments of indigenous people on a yellow background during the Acampamento Terra Livre event

Ziguinchor, Senegal - 29 Dec 2021: Kumpo dance with masks in Senegal, West Africa

Aburi, Ghana - Sept 1959: People celebrating at the annual Odwira Festival in Aburi, Ghana in 1958

Beautiful traditional African women in a hut village in the Serengeti region, 3d render painting

$Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria - July 19th, 2019: God of Thunder devotee display his traditional gun to symbolize Ogun Goddess during the Olojo Festival.\n\nThe Olojo festival commemorates the descent of Oduduwa to Ile-Ife, the celebration of the first dawn, the first afternoon, and the first night of creation. That makes the Olojo festival, one of the oldest in Africa, celebrated all over Yorubaland. It celebrates the dawn of the first day of existence on Earth. There is a parallel between this and the Judeo-Christian theology of creation, conceived with the divine proclamation: “Let there be light.”$

magic ceremony in small lagoon village near ouidah, benin.

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