Africa: Facts & Stats

CULTURE

Traditions:

Modern African culture is characterised by conflicted responses to Arab nationalism and European imperialism. Increasingly, beginning in the late 1990s, Africans have been reasserting their identity. In North Africa, especially because of the rejection of the label Arab or European, there is now an upsurge of demands for special protection of indigenous Berber languages and culture in Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia. The re-emergence of Pan-Africanism since the fall of apartheid has heightened calls for a renewed sense of African identity. In South Africa, intellectuals from settler communities of European descent increasingly identify as African for cultural, rather than geographical or racial, reasons. Famously, some have undergone ritual ceremonies to become members of the Zulu or other communities.

Many aspects of traditional African cultures have become less practiced in recent years as a result of years of neglect and suppression by colonial and post-colonial regimes. There is now a resurgence in the attempts to rediscover and revalourise African traditional cultures, under such movements as the African Renaissance, led by Thabo Mbeki, Afrocentrism, led by a group of scholars, including Molefi Asante, as well as the increasing recognition of traditional spiritualism through decriminalization of Vodou and other forms of spirituality. In recent years, traditional African culture has become synonymous with rural poverty and subsistence farming.

Celebrations:

January Festivals and Events in Africa.
African festivals in January include new year celebrations in South Africa and Muslim festivals in North Africa. If you're celebrating the cultural festival in the deserts of Mali, watch out for the Dakar Rally coming through at the same time.

February Festivals and Events in Africa.
February Festivals and Events in Africa include Africa's biggest film festival in Burkina Faso; religious celebrations in Mauritius; a gay pride parade in South Africa; music festivals in Zanzibar and Mali.

March Festivals and Events in Africa.
March Festivals and Events in Africa include a grueling marathon in the Sahara desert; Africa's largest film festival in Burkina Faso; a colorful spring festival in Mauritius and a cultural festival in Cape Town, South Africa.

April Festivals and Events in Africa
April brings spring to northern Africa and fall to South Africa. Easter is celebrated by Christians throughout the continent and runners have their pick of interesting marathons in the Sahara Desert and the African bush.

May Festivals and Events in Africa.
African Festivals and Events in May include a fragrant Rose festival in Morocco and a hunting feast in Ghana. A battle of the bands will rock Harare at the end of May and a film festival in Uganda will keep the video halls packed in Kampala. All the events are kicked off with International Labor Day on the 1st of May, which is a national holiday in most African countries.

June Festivals and Events in Africa.
African Festivals and Events in June include several music festivals in Morocco; a dance festival in Senegal; a film festival and a cultural festival in South Africa; and a film festival in Zanzibar.

July Festivals and Events in Africa.
If you need a reason to travel to Africa this July then perhaps a Dhow festival or the Marrakech Popular Arts festival and others will inspire you.

August Festivals and Events in Africa
August Festivals and Events in Africa include wine festivals in South Africa; a harvest festival in Ghana; a Berber marriage festival in Morocco; a fashion show in Cape Town and a Camel Derby in Kenya.

September Festivals and Events in Africa.
African festivals and events in September include a whale festival in South Africa, a music festival in Malawi, a salt festival in Niger, a voodoo festival in Togo, and more.

October Festivals and Events in Africa.
October festivals and events in Africa include a music festival along Malawi's lakeshore; a date festival in Morocco; cultural festivals in the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Seychelles; the end of Ramadan; and a festival celebrating the sunrise at Abu Simbel, one of Egypt's finest ancient sites.

November Festivals and Events in Africa.
November Festivals and Events in Africa inlcude a film festival in Cape Town, a Durbar festival in Ghana, a carnival in Mombasa (Kenya) and more.

December Festivals and Events in Africa.
A harvest festival in Swaziland, a Saharan cultural festival in Tunisia, a Minstrel Parade in South Africa are just some of the great events going on in Africa this December.

Alcohol:

The legal drinking age in africa by country:

• Botswana 16
• Cameroon 18 (drinking age) 21 (purchase age)
• Egypt 18
• Eritrea 16
• Ethiopia 18
• Ghana 18
• Malawi 18
• Mauritius none
• Morocco none (drinking age) 16 (purchase age)
• Namibia 18
• Niger 18
• Nigeria 18
• Rwanda 18
• South Africa 18
• Swaziland none (drinking age) 18 (purchase age)
• Sudan illegal
• Uganda 18
• Tunisia 15
• Zambia 16
• Zimbabwe 16

Sports and Hobbies:

Fifty-three African countries have football (soccer) teams in the Confederation of African Football, while Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, and Ghana have advanced to the knockout stage of recent FIFA World Cups. South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup tournament, and will be the first African country to do so.

Cricket is popular in some African nations. South Africa and Zimbabwe have Test status, while Kenya is the leading non-test team in One-Day International cricket and has attained permanent One-Day International status. The three countries jointly hosted the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Namibia is the other African country to have played in a World Cup. Morocco in northern Africa has also hosted the 2002 Morocco Cup, but the national team has never qualified for a major tournament.

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