More than 30.000 fisherman had taken part to the annual Argungu fishing festival in Nigeria's Kebbi state. People from all west africa has come to partecipate to the main event: the fishing contest in the waters of the river Mata Fada, using nets and traditional gourds made with calabashes a sort of punpkin dried and hollowed. The fisherman who take the biggest fish wins a prize of 7000 dollars, a huge amount of money for nigerian people.
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