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- Nigeria: Making Argungu Festival Cheat-Proof
- The Arthur Miller Festival: Performing Arts Theater and Dance Events…
- 16-day festival of north-east theatre

Nigeria: Making Argungu Festival Cheat-Proof
AllAfrica.com – Mar 24, 2008
Yekeen Nurudeen writes on how to make the event cheat-proof while maintaining its long standing reputation. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );When Bello Yau 48 emerged from the Matan Fada river and staggered up the stone steps to have his catch tagged and weighed which eventually turned out to be the biggest catch of this year’s Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival he did not appear with expected enthusiasm. His countenance did reveal he was worried even after his fish weighed 65. 95kg and was declared the biggest and winner of the four day cultural festival "says Balogun Bashir leadership’s Photojournalist who captured the scene live.

The Arthur Miller Festival: Performing Arts Theater and Dance Events…
Washington Post – Mar 24, 2008
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16-day festival of north-east theatre
Hindu – Mar 24, 2008
The fortnight-long festival — Poorvottar Natya Samaroah — will feature 28 plays and will include plays by eminent theatre directors of the north-east such as Ratan Thiyam Kanhailal and Dulal Roy alongside works of younger directors and NSD products such as Baharul Islam and Rabijita Gogoi. The festival will take off with a play titled “Nine hills ne Valley” to be directed by Ratan Thiyam. The present festival was conceived to bring together the plays produced in a series of theatre workshops organised by the NSD in different parts of the north-east under its extension programme. Later it was decided to include plays by senior theater directors of the region to give it the shape of a major festival.

Nigeria: Making Argungu Festival Cheat-Proof

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