Rihanna was spotted in her home country of Barbados, taking part in the local harvest festival parade, seen in a tiny red bikini, headress and fishnet stockings.

The country’s historic celebration known as, Kadooment Day, has been around since the 17th century on sugar cane plantations. Barbados was the world’s largest producer of sugar. At the end of the sugar season, there was always a huge celebration to mark the culmination of another successful sugar cane harvest – the Crop Over celebration.

As the sugar industry in Barbados declined, so too did the Crop Over festival and in the 1940’s the festival was terminated completely. However, the festival was revived in 1974 and other elements of Barbadian culture were infused to make the extravaganza that exists today ….. an event that attracts thousands of people from across the globe.

It is comparable to Carnival in Trinidad. Like Carnival, it is an adventure, an experience of one’s own. One difference, the Costumed revelers follow a fixed route so that it flows more like a parade.

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