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The N’cwala ceremony- FASHION

It is N’cwala season again and the fashion is giving. N’cwala is an annual traditional ceremony since 1980 by the Ngoni tribe. This year N’cwala Ceremony 2024 dates 22nd, 23rd and 24th February 2024 In Mtenguleni, eastern province, Zambia.

N’cwala is an event meant to pay homage to the chief of the Ngoni, chief Mpezeni and to their ancestral spirits, for fresh fruits and food and to commemorate their victories during their tribal wars when they migrated from the current day, KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa (home of Shaka).

Traditional ceremonies have capturing fashion aside the meanings and histories linked them .The Ngoni people as well as the guests and tourists of the event all garb a history oriented fashion of rich material made from real animal’s mostly wild cats. This culture or trend has never changed since the forever. The animal skin material is worn from head raps, shoulder scarfs, while leaving the strong African chests exposed by both the men and women and finished off with shorts skirts. The N’cwala ceremony fashion is accessorized with animal skin anklets, beaded ornaments, shields and royal staff. It has also spiced up by traditional makeup.

What makes this fashion even more interesting is that it is the original ‘animal print fashion’. The animal print fashion is one seen in all fashion corners across the globe.

Animal printed fashion is not uncommonly seen in the fashion world and modernized to diverse apparel yet the Ngoni people have this fashion in their originality and culture and it is richly paraded at the N’cwala ceremony alongside the dances and other rich cultured practices.

The Ngoni’s N’cwala ceremony fashion is one seen by other groups of people in southern Africa like some parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and most popularly the Zulu people of South Africa by historical the shaka.

Social media and the Zambian social environment has since been painted with animal skin attires during this N’cwala season.

However the cultural fashion has been distorted over years with affluence of decency by modern moral beliefs, whitewashing, societal norms among others.

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