Christmas in South Africa is during summer. As the season is hot, during these holidays, people go on beaches and mountains to celebrate. Christmas celebration involves singing carols and participation in processions. School being closed for the Christmas holiday, activities like swimming and camping begins.

773653_santa_claus_candle.jpgFor Christmas, homes are decorated with pine branches and Christmas fir with white cotton wool on it to denote it as snow. Presents for the children are kept either under the Christmas trees or in the stockings hung specially for this purpose.

Family and friends are invited for the special feast of Lunch and traditional dinner, which includes varieties of mouth-watering delicacies.

To have fun, people either visit beaches to enjoy the cool swim in this hot season or just gather at the town square and march and sing to get into the Christmas spirit.

Ethiopia has a unique way to celebrate Christmas festival. In Ethiopia, it is celebrated on 7th January the day when Christians commemorate the revelation of Jesus to humanity, i.e., Epiphany. On Christmas Eve, many people take part in the procession moving towards the capital city of the country. These people moving about in dark pray, chant, and while religious service present a colourful sight on Christmas morning.

As Africa is not a very developed country, the celebrations are for short duration compared to other developed countries. Christmas being during hot season, people enjoy their meals in a lawn under the shades of tree and not on a formal setting of table and chairs.

Practical items like cloth, pencils, sweets, books etc. are used as exchange gifts for Christmas. People being comparatively poor cannot afford to give costly gifts but still they want to surprise their family and friends so they use these thoughtful things, which will be used by them. Africans traditionally have a very strong pervasive aspect of humbleness and humility, this aspect shows in their celebration of Christmas too.