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Wedding traditions of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lobola and the knocking on the door, kente and the wedding cloth, Gerewol and the Ethiopian zemed. 68 traditions on EveryShaadi so far.

Countries

🇦🇴 Angola 1 🇧🇯 Benin 5 🇧🇼 Botswana 0 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 1 🇧🇮 Burundi 2 🇨🇲 Cameroon 3 🇨🇻 Cape Verde 0 🇨🇫 Central African Republic 1 🇹🇩 Chad 1 🇰🇲 Comoros 0 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1 🇩🇯 Djibouti 0 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea 0 🇪🇷 Eritrea 2 🇸🇿 Eswatini 2 🇪🇹 Ethiopia 10 🇬🇦 Gabon 0 🇬🇲 Gambia 4 🇬🇭 Ghana 8 🇬🇳 Guinea 1 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau 0 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 0 🇰🇪 Kenya 8 🇱🇸 Lesotho 1 🇱🇷 Liberia 1 🇲🇬 Madagascar 0 🇲🇼 Malawi 0 🇲🇱 Mali 6 🇲🇺 Mauritius 1 🇲🇿 Mozambique 0 🇳🇦 Namibia 1 🇳🇪 Niger 8 🇳🇬 Nigeria 25 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo 1 🇷🇼 Rwanda 4 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe 0 🇸🇳 Senegal 3 🇸🇨 Seychelles 1 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 1 🇸🇴 Somalia 1 🇿🇦 South Africa 16 🇸🇸 South Sudan 2 🇹🇿 Tanzania 2 🇹🇬 Togo 5 🇺🇬 Uganda 16 🇿🇲 Zambia 4 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 2

Cities and towns

Lagos 4 Addis Ababa 2 Cape Town 2

On the calendar

Shubh Vivah muhurat The Nigerian December wedding season Ghana, from Easter to December South Africa, the spring and summer season Ethiopia, the season after the rains The Coptic and Ethiopian Great Lent Ramadan Gerewol (Wodaabe Courtship Festival)Umhlanga (Reed Dance)Marriage Equality, South Africa (1 December 2006)

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Hausa traditional marriage: Bembety, CC0, source

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