Travel Guide Tibiri

Around Tibiri and 15 km from Maradi, a tradition named Budun Daji, «opening the bush», always brings together animists. They come from the whole department of Maradi, but also from the more distant areas: Nigeria, where the sharia in the north brought them to the Niger, Benin, Togo, Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic. They question the entrailles of the earth to know the future. This ceremony takes place on every first Sunday of the fourth month following the last rain, and no less than 1 000 féticheurs, géomanciens and followers of the cult of geniuses come to practise an immutable agrarian rite, prior to the penetration of Islam (an identical ceremony takes place in the district of Birni N'Konni in Massalata). The head of the province, yet convinced Muslim, assures the house and cover of the whole world for two weeks, ancestral and modernism tradition goes hand in hand. The master of water gives the kick to Koumboula by lighting a great fire of mil rods: he'then asks the earth '. The next day, the head of the féticheurs held in Barakama to verify the predictions of the day before. The third day is Kay Ba Hula or naked heads ceremony: from sunrise to sunset, it is forbidden to wear anything on your head. In the evening, the head of province was informed of the outcome of the @ consultations. On Wednesday, the day of the market in Tibiri, then saw the animists lined with colours, amulets, and bells, walking to the tail leu leu by doing three times the market tour and getting involved in the crowd in search of soup.