Shao, Nigeria, Nov 1, 2025 (AFP) - Traditional mass wedding held in Nigeria to ensure prosperity

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2025-11-01

Sheltering from the pitiless sun under large blue umbrellas, several dozen young Nigerian women sporting colourful dresses paraded to the rhythm of drums in a mass wedding on Friday -- an annual rite held in western Nigeria. This tradition of the mass Awon marriage, organised in the small town of Shao in Kwara State in October, is linked to local mythology. The story goes that a young hunter from Shao once met a strange woman with a single breas......

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