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Bafata Carnival in Bafata
Bafata, birthplace of Amilcar Cabral and a Mandinka-founded trading town dating from the mid-1800s, sends its own delegation into Guinea-Bissau's national carnival parade each February or March, competing alongside seven other regional groups on the capital's judged parade route in Bissau each year, drawing on the town's own trading history for its costume and drumming style.
Bafata, Guinea-Bissau's second-largest city and the birthplace of independence leader Amilcar Cabral in 1924, sends its own delegation into the national carnival parade each February or March, one of eight regional groups, alongside Gabu, Cacheu, Biombo, Tombali, Quinara, Oio and Bolama, competing on the judged route in Bissau against the capital's roughly seventeen neighborhood blocos.