Umhlanga (ceremony)
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title:
Umhlanga (ceremony)
text:
Umhlanga, or Reed Dance ceremony, is an annual Swazi event that takes place at the end of August or at the beginning of September. In Eswatini, tens of thousands of unmarried and childless Swazi girls and women travel from the various chiefdoms to the Ludzidzini Royal Village to participate in the eight-day event. The young, unmarried girls were placed in female age-regiments; girls who had fallen pregnant outside wedlock had their families fined a cow.
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encyclopedia
description:
Annual Swazi woman's ritual
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umhlanga_(ceremony)
date created:
2009-09-05T19:27:49Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T08:13:57Z
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