This year’s Ahuna Festival at Pughoboto placed uncommon emphasis on inter-tribal friendship and reconciliation, turning the Sümi community’s annual celebration of harvest and thanksgiving into a wider affirmation of unity between the Sümi and Angami peoples.

Held on November 13 and 14 under the theme “Bound by History, Bridging Generations,” the festival brought thousands together at the ancestral cradle of the Sümi, with both days organised by the Sümi Hoho and hosted by the Sümi Aphuyemi Frontal Organizations.

The presence of more than one thousand Angami brothers and an overall gathering of over four thousand lent particular weight to this year’s theme. Central to the programme was the unveiling of the Angami–Sümi Relationship Stone, a monument described as a symbol of longstanding fr

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