The San people will be holding their first edition of the San Cultural Festival in Gobabis at Legare Stadium from November 2 to 5.
The festival is aimed at displaying the San people’s culture.
The festival is a way to preserve San people’s culture by displaying and passing it on to the youth.
The San people’s culture is the oldest in Southern Africa.
They are known hunter-gatherers and live on wild berries, wild potatoes, wild animals through hunting, and other fruits from nature.
The overseer of the first edition of the San Cultural Festival, Delila Gaxas-Ipinge, says they are excited to be networking with different subtribes and looking at the diverse San people’s culture.
She says they will also hold a fundraising dinner on October 21 in Windhoek for the festival.
“What initiated the San people to actually stand up to host this first ever edition of the San cultural festival is that the San people’s cultural identities are getting extinct these days. If you look around, you don’t see the culture of the San people being displayed, being showcased, so our culture, our traditions, our norms and values, our languages, so we came together as San people from different San subgroups and we decided that we needed to preserve our culture and teach our children our languages.”
The Vice Chairperson of the San Annual Cultural Festival, Benjamin |Ameb, urged the public to support the festival.
He says there will be various activities and different traditional foods, as well as music.
“If we talk about who is going to attend the festival, we invite all the people over Namibia, all the different cultural groups, different ethnic groups, like Nama, Oshiwambo, and all those groups we are inviting; they are welcome to be part of this festival, but mostly this festival is based on the people of the San community, but we invite all the people.”
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