African Calendar Traditions
6 entries from the African tradition: 5 calendar systems, 1 cycle.
Ethiopian calendar
Ethiopia's official calendar has twelve months of 30 days plus Pagume, a thirteenth month of five or six days. Its leap year...
Coptic calendar
Era from 284 CEThe Coptic calendar, used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and by Egyptian farmers, descends from the ancient Egyptian civil...
Ancient Egyptian calendar
The Egyptian civil calendar had three seasons, Akhet, Peret and Shemu, each of four 30-day months, plus five epagomenal days...
Berber calendar
The agrarian calendar of the Amazigh peoples of North Africa follows the Julian calendar, so its new year, Yennayer, falls around...
Sothic cycle
Because the Egyptian civil year had exactly 365 days, the heliacal rising of Sirius, Sopdet in Egyptian, drifted through it by a...
Akan calendar
The Akan people of Ghana and Ivory Coast combine a six day week with the seven day week, producing named sacred days that recur...