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Kulamba Ceremony

and Zambia. A variety of dances such as Gule Wamukulu (Nyau dance), Gologolo, Makanja, Muganda, Chinamwali and Chimtali (the female dance) are performed during the ceremony (ZTB, 2012).

The Kulamba ceremony held annually in Katete, Eastern Province, celebrates the harvest in late August. Paramount Chief Kalonga Gawa Undi of the Chewa-speaking people of Zambia presides over the ceremony, which brings together chiefs from chiefdoms in Malawi, Mozambique

Nyau dancers at the Kulamba Ceremony ZTB, 2007

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