Culture and Climate Change Combine in Ngoni Festival
The Ngoni of Mzimba have celebrated their sixth Umtheto Cultural Festival, a tribal fiesta which is aimed at bringing together the Ngoni people as part of enhancing their cultural values.
The celebrations which took place at Hora Mountain site from August 11 reached a crescendo on August 13.
Celebrated under the theme “Culture and climate change”, the Umtheto Cultural Festival was attended by high profile people both from within the country as well as outside with some delegates coming from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa just to mention but a few.
Speaking during the final day of the ceremony, Inkosi Ya Makosi M’mbelwa V touched on a number of social and cultural issues.
Alexander Brugger