Tag: Nawdba culture

Every year, as the first Saturday of April comes around, the market town of Niamtougou in northern Togo fills with drumming, dancing and the smell of bean fritters and freshly brewed millet beer. This is Sintu-Janjaagu, the great harvest festival of the Nawdba (also written Nawdéba) and their neighbors the Lamba, two peoples who share…