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All African communities know all about the significance of tribal masks and costumes. No African Festival can be complete without these forms of decorations. Sometimes spiritual overtones also contribute to the interpretation of the influence of these items.
African traditions are both interesting and intriguing in equal measure. For instance, most of the African communities believe that circling villages while wearing carnival costumes and tribal masks brings about good fortunes to the people. African festival traditions from the continent borrow heavily form a single act that involves collecting and putting together objects such as bones, shells, beads and fabrics so as to make a sculpture, a skull, or even a mere costume. All these objects are said to add to a certain force that contributes to the spiritual significance of the whole object.
 African tribal masks When feathers are used on the African tribal masks during festivals, they represent the power to rise above other people so as to conquer them. In another sense, the feathers represent the ability to conquer problems, weaknesses, pains, illnesses and heartbreaks. Carnival costumes have always been made in the same way all over the world only that in Africa, a powerful spiritual dimension is added to them.
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African culture is renowned for festivals. There is something about the African festival culture that makes the activities of these festivals original and exotic. The Nigerian Ogba community holds the New Yam Festival annually while the Tuareg are culturally attached to the Festival in the Desert.
The New Yam Festival among the Ogba people in Nigeria is a distinctive African festival. This community is agriculturally endowed and also has an amazing aqua culture. The New Yam Festival is meant to harmonize the people so as to bring about more coherence. This is the time when people’s speeches are spoken without any political overtones. According to the Ogba culture, The New Yam Festival festival ought to take place every August. Carnival costumes worn during The New Yam Festival is a part of African culture and represent great fun as Africans interpret it.
 New Yam Festival Wrestlers fight while wearing carnival costumes during New Yam Festival in Nigeria. It is hard to witness an African festival that lacks some form of wrestling competition. Most of these competitions are between rival clans or ethnic groups.
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