Ts Contest | My country's festival

Hello and warmest greetings dear amiable steemians friends and colleagues across the globe, how are you all doing today, I hope you are fine and healthy as well as enjoying this beautiful and wonderful moment of September, I'm @john247 from #Nigeria it's all my pleasure and am so delighted to have you all in this amazing contest titled; "My country's festival" organized by @bonaventure24 here in #Traveling-Steem.

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Festivals can be seen as an organized series of special events and performances or cultural and social celebration that bring people from far or near together to celebrate and enjoy different forms of artistic expression, tradition, food, music, food and other forms of cultural and traditional aspect.
It is usually of limited duration, ranging from a few days to several weeks, and are often held on a regular, annually or biannually basis depending on the fixed date or time.

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Tell us about the best festival celebrated in your country.

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Here in my country Nigeria there are so many different festival celebrated in different tribes which in includes....Calabar Carnival, Afan festival, Egungun festival, Durbar festival, Lagos Carnival, Argungu Fishing Festival, New Yam Festival, Kaduna Book and Arts Festival and many more other.

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The best among them all is Argungu Fishing Festival which is considered as one of the most famous and exciting traditional fishing festivals held here in Nigeria and African as a whole.
The Argungu fishing festival also known as (Fashin Ruwa) is a celebration of life. It is a tool of conserving natural resources, maintaining and promoting traditional life, it is a Bare-hand fishing competition among thousands of fishermen, equipped with only a hand net and large gourd the individual who caught the biggest fish will be awarded with different huge prizes, just like In the 2020 Argungu Fishing Festival, the fisherman who caught the biggest fish weighing about 78 kilograms was awarded N10 million, two new cars and two Hajj seats, second position, and third positions were also awarded handsomely.
This particular festival is celebrated to mark the beginning of the fishing season in Argungu, a river-side town in Kebbi State, Nigeria. It is celebrated between February and March every year.

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Do you enjoy this festival or not? Tell us the reason for your answer.

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Despite the fact that I have never for once attended this fishing festival before, I still enjoy listening to people share their different opinions and perspectives concerning this festival, also the reason I enjoy this festival is because the festival preserves tradition and promotes conservation and ensuring the economic viability of the community's fishery.

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Have you ever witnessed this festival? If yes tell us about any memory related to it. If no. Do you have any plans of witnessing it in the future.

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Just like I said above I have never attended or witness this festival before but I know much about this particular festival because I was taught about it right from primary and secondary school.

Of course yes, I have plans of attending and witnessing this festival in future to come because I have been hearing about it for a long time now that it is the best fishing festival in Nigeria also in African as a whole so witnessing it will be so much interesting and fun.

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Historical story of this festival

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Argungu fishing festival was originated and formed in August 1934, when the Sultan of Sokoto, Hassan Dan Mu'azu, made an historic visit to Argungu, In appreciation of his visit, the first by a sultan of Sokoto, a grand fishing festival was organized and established and since then it has become a yearly event and celebration held between February and March every year to mark the end of farming season.

I have come to the end Point of this amazing contest, Let's me start by appreciating the leadership of this community for the privilege given to participate in this amazing contest, also more appreciation goes to the organizer of this contest @bonaventure24 for this astounding contest.

I will respectfully invite and call on the attention of my fellow steemians @anthony002 @marito74 @kuzboy to take part in this contest thanks.