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Dec
11
2022
By The African Mirror
Nobel awards to take place in Stockholm with full glitz and glamour

Nobel awards to take place in Stockholm with full glitz and glamour

WORLD
NOBEL laureates congregated in the Swedish capital Stockholm for the first entirely in-person award ceremonies complete with a formal banquet since the COVID-19 pandemic that curtailed events in the past two years. The ceremony starts at 1500 GMT and features glamorous formal wear, with the men in white ties and tails and women in flowing gowns and elegant hairdos. Ceremonies in 2020 and 2021 were scaled back and there was no banquet. Many laureates from 2020 and 2021 will be attending this year as well as the 2022 winners - last year for example there was a ceremony but no…
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Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Kenya’s Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders

Kenya’s Maasai gather for once-in-a-decade ceremony to turn warriors into elders

MULTIMEDIA
THOUSANDS of Maasai men clad in red and purple shawls and with their heads coated in red ochre gathered this week for a ceremony that transforms them from Moran (warriors) to Mzee (elders). Around 15,000 men from all over Kenya and neighbouring Tanzania congregated in Maparasha Hills in Kajiado County, 128 km from Nairobi, to feast on an estimated 3,000 bulls and 30,000 goats and sheep. The ceremony occurs once every decade at the site, which is surrounded by hills and dotted with acacia trees. On Wednesday, the men roasted the meat on beds of coal from acacia trees, holding…
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