The Pategi Regatta is a canoe festival held on the Niger at Pategi, the seat of the Pategi Emirate, with canoe races and displays at Gbaradogi on the west bank and Nupe cultural displays at the Etsu's palace (Wikipedia).
- Type
- Festival
- Nature of the record
- Contemporary practice
- Category
- Festivals & ceremonies
- When observed
- Biennial (Wikipedia); first held 1952
- Current status
- Unknown
- Scope
- Community
The Pategi Regatta is a canoe festival held on the Niger at Pategi, the seat of the Pategi Emirate, with canoe races and displays at Gbaradogi on the west bank and Nupe cultural displays at the Etsu's palace (Wikipedia). It was founded by the emirate's traditional council in 1949 and first held in 1952, and it involves the people of the emirate and others living along the Niger in Kwara, Niger and Kogi states. Wikipedia describes it as biennial.
- Pategi Emirate — Wikipedia · link
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Archive ID: CULT-PATEGI-REGATTA · Last updated 7 October 2026.
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