Nigeria, South Africa to deepen ties through Heritage Day celebration in Lagos

By Efe Onodjae

Nigeria and South Africa are acceptable to fortify bilateral and taste ties arsenic some countries cogwheel up for the South African Heritage Day Celebration slated for September 20, 2025, astatine the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The event, curated by Afro Flavor successful concern with the Consulate of the Republic of South Africa, volition showcase food, fashion, music, art, and taste displays from some countries, nether the taxable “One Love, One Africa.”

Speaking astatine a property briefing successful Lagos, the organisers stressed that the programme was designed not lone arsenic a solemnisation of South African practice but besides arsenic a level to beforehand unity, trade, diplomacy, and continental growth.

Continuing Afroflavour Chief, Lucky Idike Jr. added “This lawsuit volition beforehand practice and collaboration betwixt Nigeria and South Africa and so each of Africa. The AU’s imaginativeness for 2063 is of a continent that is self-sufficient, united, and developed. Unity betwixt Nigeria and South Africa is cardinal to achieving that vision,” 1 of the organisers said.

Highlights of the solemnisation see a people cook-off contention featuring 5 African countries — Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Morocco (with Ghana besides being considered). Nigeria volition contiguous shaki, portion South Africa volition showcase mahulu, with each state bringing its unsocial delicacy to the contest.

The time volition besides diagnostic a taste market, a creator’s lounge, and 3 sheet sessions discussing food, culture, and Africa’s aboriginal nether Agenda 2063. Guests volition beryllium treated to unrecorded music, manner processions showcasing attires from Nigeria’s large tribes, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and Urhobo, arsenic good arsenic South African accepted wear.

According to the South African Consulate, the collaboration goes beyond entertainment, serving arsenic a reminder of the historical bonds betwixt some nations, peculiarly Nigeria’s relation successful supporting South Africa during the anti-apartheid struggle.

“Our relations are of brotherhood. We whitethorn person our rivalries, but we stock much successful communal than what divides us. Events similar this assistance america archer our ain affirmative stories alternatively than let others specify our narrative,” the Consul-General stated.

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