Discovery of the Week: Argungu Fishing Festival

The highlight of this annual festival is a 45-minute fishing frenzy in which over 5,000 men armed with giant nets take to a protected part of the Argungu River and compete to see who can land the largest fish. There’s also canoe racing, wild duck hunting, bare-handed fishing, diving competitions and swimming contests along with nightly revelry, including drinking, singing and dancing. 

The festival takes place in late February, early March, in Argungu, a riverside town in Kebbi state, Nigeria.