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The name Damba is in Dagbani. Other variations include Damma in Mampruli and Jingbenti in Waali. The festival is celebrated in the month of Damba, the third month of Dagomba calendar. The purpose of the festival is to celebrate the rich heritage, history and chieftaincy of Dagbon and related kingdoms. Dagbon is the birthplace of centralized ...
The genus name Paretroplus is composed by the Greek Para (meaning similar to) and Etroplus (a closely related genus of Indian cichlids). [3] The Latin species name damii honors the naturalist Douwe Casparus van Dam (1827-1898). [4]
The damson (/ ˈ d æ m z ə n /), damson plum, or damascene [1] (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, sometimes Prunus insititia), [2] is an edible drupaceous fruit, a subspecies of the plum tree. Varieties of insititia are found across Europe, but the name damson is derived from and most commonly applied to forms that are native to Great ...
World Damba Festival is an enactment of the Damba festival of Northern Ghana by Ghanaians living in other parts of the world. World Damba festival was first celebrated in 1999 in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] [2] London hosted the event in 2012. Other cities that have hosted the festival include Boston in Massachusetts, Amsterdam, and Brussels. [3]
Other festivals include the Damba Festival, Guinea Fowl (Kpini Chuɣu) Festival and Yam Festival (Nyuli Dibu), Konyuri Chuɣu (Eid Al-Fitr), Chimsi Chuɣu (Eid AL-Adha). [36] Other minor localized festivals that are celebrated included the Market Festival (Daa Chuɣu) by the people of Tolon. The Dagomba founded the Kingdom of Dagbon. [43]
Damballa is said to be the sky father and the primordial creator of all life, or the first thing created by the Bondye.In those Vodou societies that view Damballa as the primordial creator, he created the cosmos by using his 7000 coils to form the stars and the planets in the heavens and to shape the hills and valleys on Earth.
Damba festival, celebrated in Nalerigu Tamale and Wa in the Northern and Upper West Regions of Ghana World Damba Festival, enactments of the Damba festival by Ghanaians living in other parts of the world. Damba Island, Lake Victoria, Uganda; Damba mipentina (Paretroplus maculatus), an endangered species of cichlid native to Madagascar
Various edible fruits arranged at a stall at the Municipal Market of São Paulo Fresh fruit mix of blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries. In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (angiosperms) that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).