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Nine-Night, also known as Dead Yard, is a funerary tradition originating in West Africa and practiced in Caribbean countries (primarily Jamaica, Belize, Antigua, Grenada, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Trinidad, and Haiti). It is an extended wake that lasts for several days, with roots in certain West African religious traditions. During ...
During the ceremony, around 500 prisoners would be sacrificed. As many as 4,000 were reported killed in one of these ceremonies in 1727. [5] [6] [7] Most of the victims were sacrificed through decapitation, a tradition widely used by Dahomean kings, and the literal translation for the Fon name for the ceremony Xwetanu is "yearly head business". [8]
Ceremony Venue Date of ceremony Hosts [13] Best Film; Title Director Nation 1st: Gloryland Cultural Center, Bayelsa State 30 May 2005 Stella Damasus-Aboderin, Segun Arinze: The Mayors [14] [15] [16] Dickson Iroegbu: Nigeria: 2nd: Gloryland Cultural Center, Bayelsa State 29 April 2006 Frank Edoh, Chinyelu Anyiam-Osigwe Rising Moon [17] Andy ...
The Dugu is a type of funeral ceremony that brings the community and families together. It is a festival that aims to bring deceased ancestors of the Garifuna to the present [2] and lasts between two days to as much as two weeks. The ceremony seeks to cure ill persons that have become sick because they have displeased the gubida (spirits). [3]
It was followed by De Voortrekkers (1916), South Africa's (and possibly Africa's) first epic film and oldest surviving film, about the Great Trek and targeted at an Afrikaner audience. [17] A notable theme in early South African cinema was the ethnic confrontation between Afrikaner (specifically Boer ) and British South Africans.
Year Title Director Genre Notes 1989: Red Scorpion: Joseph Zito: action adventure: 2007: Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation: Charles Burnett: drama: 2009: Rider without a Horse
In Europe, historians have thought the three- day festival of the dead is a ritualistic remembrance of the deluge in which Halloween the first night is depicting the wickedness of the world before the flood. The second night is spent celebrating the saved who survived the deluge and the last night is meant as an honoring to those who would ...
The film was released globally on Disney+ on July 31, 2020, and was aired the following day across Sub-Saharan Africa on M-Net and Canal+ Afrique and across the Middle East and North Africa on OSN. An extended version of " Black Parade " was used for the film's credits, and was included in a deluxe edition of The Gift released alongside the film.