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- Umkhosi is a Zulu word for "festival" and may refer to: Umkhosi Wokweshwama, first fruits festival Umkhosi woMhlanga, reed dance festival This disambiguation...
- Umkhosi Wokweshwama [um̩kʰoːsi woɠʷeʃʷaːma] ("first fruits festival"), recently also known as Umkhosi Woselwa [um̩kʰoːsi woseːlʷa] ("calabash festival")...
- royal kraal of the Zulu king. In South Africa, the ceremony is known as Umkhosi woMhlanga,[clarification needed] and takes place every year in September...
- Pleiades, which is ****ociated with the month of uNhlangulana. Umkhosi Wokweshwama Umkhosi woMhlanga uMathayi Marula Festival - In Umkhanyakude District...
- Umkhosi Wezintaba ('The Regiment of the Hills'), 'Umkosi we Seneneem' ('The Regiment of Gaolbirds'), 'Abas'etsheni' ('The People of the Stone'), the 'Nongoloza'...
- South Africa the tradition is practiced by Zulu people of KwaZulu-Natal as Umkhosi Wokweshwama. Umhlanga is an annual event that originates from Eswatini...
- Karenga was partly inspired by an account he read of the Zulu festival Umkhosi Wokweshwama. It was decided to spell the holiday's name with an additional...
- subjects. He also selected other girls at the annual first fruit ceremony (umkhosi wokweshwama). A huge half-moon shaped area was included in the black isigodlo;...
- traditional dress—young women wearing only beaded skirts and jewelry—in the Umkhosi Womhlanga (Reed Dance) by the Zulu and Swazi. Other examples of ethnic...
- Incwala, and King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation, celebrated as Umkhosi Wokweshwama. Snedegar, Keith, [First Fruit Celebrations among the Nguni...