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Sango Festival of Oyo
festival de Sango d'Oyo
Nigerian festival marking the beginning of the Yoruba Traditional New Year in August
Nigeria · Oyo · Nigeria
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Sango Festival is an annual festival held among the Yoruba people in honour of Sango, a thunder and fire deity who was a warrior and the third king of the Oyo Empire after succeeding Ajaka his elder brother. Renamed in 2013 to World Sango Festival by the government of Oyo State, the festival is usually held in August at the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo and also observed in over forty countries around the world.
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