Marula Fruit Festival

A very special day in Namibia to document the Omagongo Cultural Festival also known as Marula Fruit Festival - in collaboration with Air Namibia, Namibia Tourism Board, Impresario.

Omangongo Cultural Festival 2018 at Uukwaluudhi traditional authority homestead, Tsandi Omusati region - Namibia

To host the edition 2018 at his residence in the village of Onalushwa in northern Namibia, was Tk. Josia Shikongo Taaopopi, king of Uukwaluudhi, one of the 8 sub-tribes Ovambo joined on the occasion for the production and consumption of Omagongo, an alcoholic drink obtained from the fruits of Marula.

Promoting development through cultural heritage, was the guiding thread of the Marula Fruit Festival 2018, which had as special guest Mr. Sam Nujoma, the founding father of independent Namibia and its first President as well as the creator of the Omagongo Cultural Festival.

Over 5000 people took part in the Festival, belonging to different ethnic groups from the various regions of Namibia. Both men and women, dressed in their colorful traditional clothes.

In the gallery of honor, a large tent, together with the king, seated on a throne adorned with kudu horns and at the feet a lion’s skin, the queen, Naandjali Taapopi and Sam Nujoma, also Hifikepunye Pohamba, (former President), Nangolo Mbumba (Vice President), Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila (Prime Minister), Peya Mushelenga (Minister of Urban and Rural Development) and Katrina Hanse-Himarwa (Minister of Culture, Art and Education).

Namibia’s Marula Fruit Festival listed as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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