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Traditional African Ceremonies

Captures vibrant community rituals in Africa, including prayer, seasonal ceremonies, and cultural expressions of various ethnic groups and their traditions.

Witch doctor performing a rain ceremony, Takaungu, Kenya.
Witch doctor performing a rain ceremony, Takaungu, Kenya.
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England, Essex, Southend-on-Sea. Members of an apostolic church preparing for a baptism.
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Fortune telling with cowrie shells, Saly, Thies, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Marienprozession an Maria Himmelfahrt am Lake Bosumtwi bei Abono in der Ashanti Region im Zentrum von Ghana in Westafrika *** Maryu0026 39s procession to Maria Ascension Day on Lake Lake Bosumtwi at abono in the Ashanti Region at Centre from Ghana in West Africa
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Sunday mass in Notre Dame de la Delivrance basilica, Keur Moussa, Senegal. Our Father prayer
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Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Elmina. Women sell canned goods at Amazing Grace shop.
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Boys in a medressa with holy quoran, Kano, Kano state, Nigeria, Africa
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HIV-project: Ama Buruxa Chor in OA Hera Art-Center in Maltahoehe, where HIV-orphants are performing and doing HIV-prevention at the same time. A nice backpacker-lodge aside the cultural centre
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Boys in a medressa with holy quoran, Kano, Kano state, Nigeria, Africa
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Balafon players during festivities, Sikasso, Mali, Africa
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People gather to observe the Olojo Festival celebration at Ile-Ife, in Osun state. The Olojo festival is a celebration of Ogun, god of Iron, it commemorates the descent of Oduduwa to Ile-Ife, the celebration of the first dawn, the first afternoon, and the first night of creation. Olojo festival is one of the oldest in Africa, celebrated all over Yoruba land. It celebrates the dawn of the first day of existence on Earth, where the monarch wears the sacred crown that holds greater significance in the Olojo celebration, Nigeria.
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Worshippers holding each other's hands and praying, Catholic mass in a slum or favela, Jacarezinho favela, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, South America *** IMPORTANT: NO PUBLICATION IN BRAZIL ***
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Faith healer, Pentecostal community, Sehitwa, Botswana, Africa
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Children playing in front of the church, after the church service, Manyemen, Cameroon, Africa
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People gather to observe the Olojo Festival celebration at Ile-Ife, in Osun state. The Olojo festival is a celebration of Ogun, god of Iron, it commemorates the descent of Oduduwa to Ile-Ife, the celebration of the first dawn, the first afternoon, and the first night of creation. Olojo festival is one of the oldest in Africa, celebrated all over Yoruba land. It celebrates the dawn of the first day of existence on Earth, where the monarch wears the sacred crown that holds greater significance in the Olojo celebration, Nigeria.
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Religious festival outside a mosque in Ndayane, Senegal
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African-American youth choir, Washington D.C.
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Meeting of Kolping members in Bungwe, Rwanda. Kolping is a christian German NGO.
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Couple wearing traditional clothing during mass, Francistown, Botswana, Africa
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Evangelical preacher in church, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Children near a stall like this voodoo rituals in Benin
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Man carving the Quoran on a wooden board, Kano, Kano state, Nigeria, Africa
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Ijebu Indigenes attend and perform during the colorful Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu. The colorful festival is celebrated on the second day after the Eid al-Adha. The Ojude Oba festival is a cultural and exuberant spectacle of sound, colour and joie de vivre. Ogun state, Nigeria.
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Africa, Gabon, Mboka A Nzambe Village, Bwiti Ceremonies, Forest, An Initiate Takes The Iboga Plant, Stimulating, Muscular Tonic And Sometimes In High Dose, Hallucinogenic
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Ijebu Indigenes attend and perform during the colorful Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu. The colorful festival is celebrated on the second day after the Eid al-Adha. The Ojude Oba festival is a cultural and exuberant spectacle of sound, colour and joie de vivre. Ogun state, Nigeria.
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Presbyterian Evangelical church in Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Kebbi, Nigeria - 13 February 2026: Aerial view of a vibrant gathering in Argungu, where a sea of faces meets the warm glow of the setting sun.
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Wat Tan Chet Yot at Sam Roi Yot National Park in the Province of Prachuap Khiri Khan in Thailand,  Thailand, Hua Hin, November, 2022. THAILAND PRACHUAP SAM ROI YOT WAT TAN CHET YOT
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Italy, Milan, Shelter for refugees at the Holocaust Memorial (Shoah Memorial)
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Sunday mass in Karongi Genocide Memorial church, Kibuye, western Rwanda
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Church elders holding the bread and wine for the sacrament at a church service in Douala, Cameroon, Africa
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Spiritual leader dressed in leopard skin in the Church of Black People in Mbandaka, Equateur province, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa
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Funeral of a woman who died of HIV/AIDS, men praying at her grave, Garoua, Cameroon, Africa
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Man reading the bible. Lome. Togo.
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Ethiopia, Tana Lake, Azuwa Maryam church
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Funeral of a woman who died of HIV/AIDS, men praying at her grave, Garoua, Cameroon, Africa
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Christian devotees offer prayers at a church on the occasion of Christmas in Guwahati, Assam, India on 25 December 2023. Christmas is an annual festival that is widely celebrated around the world, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ.
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Mourners cherish the memory of President Barack Obama's 2009 visit with President John Atta Mills and Ghana's two prior presidents at the State Funeral of President Mills in Accra, Ghana, on August 10, 2012.
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Ijebu Indigenes attend and perform during the colorful Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu. The colorful festival is celebrated on the second day after the Eid al-Adha. The Ojude Oba festival is a cultural and exuberant spectacle of sound, colour and joie de vivre. Ogun state, Nigeria.
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Catholic faithful In Ikeja area of Lagos, portraying Jesus Christ performs in the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ in observance of Good Friday. Nigeria.
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Italy, Milan, Shelter for refugees at the Holocaust Memorial. Shoah Memorial
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Man taking a photograph of another man at the dhikr (remembrance of Allah) devotional ceremony at the Hamid el-Nil mosque; Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan
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Black couple praying with spread arms
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Teenagers singing during mass, Francistown, Botswana, Africa
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Liberians celebrate Chinese President's visit
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The chairwoman of the Rastafari Marcus Garvey Community with a picture of King Heile Selassie, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa
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Catholic nun using internet, Lome, Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Christian Advice Herbal Shop, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Abuja, Nigeria. 29th May 2023. Nigeria President/elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn into office. The ceremony took place amid tight security at the 5,000/capacity Eagle Square venue in the capital, Abuja.
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Italy, Milan, Shelter for refugees at the Holocaust Memorial. Shoah Memorial
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Mass in Saint Peters catholic church, Kibuye/Karongi, Rwanda.
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Taxi driver holding prayer beads in Dakar, Senegal
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World Youth Day . Madrid. Spain.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, watched by Sultan Muhammadu Sa�ad Abubakar and Governor of Sokoto Aminu Waziri Tambuwai, signs a guestbook after delivering a speech about countering violent extremism and promoting good governance following a meeting with the officials and religious leaders at the Sultan�s Palace in Sokoto, Nigeria, on August 23, 2016.
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