Festivals

A unique feature of Ghana is the great many annual festivals held around the country, practically every town and village becomes excited at festival time, when locals dress up in their finest traditional attire and tourists are welcome to join in the street celebrations, parades take place to the sound of drums, and traditional horns, every festival commemorate an event.  Some of the most important 100 local festivals are.

• Adae, Sitting of Asante king, Kumasi, every sixth Sunday.
• Buronya, local variation on Christmas, Elmina, first Thursday of January.
• Dipo, initiation ceremony, Krobo Odumase, April
• Aboakyer, antelope hunt, Winneba, First Saturday of May.
• Bakatue, opening of the lagoon, Elmina, first Tuesday of July.
• Asafo Tufiam, indigenous warriors’ celebration, Ada September.
• Homowo, ‘hooting at hunger’, Accra, August – September.
• Fetu Afahye, colourful parade, Cape Coast, First Saturday of September.
• Yam festival, Volta Region, different dates August – November at different locations.
• Odwira, Akropong, October.
• Hogbetsotso, Anlo Volta Region, 1st Saturday in November

• Odwira Festival
• Homowo Festival
• Anlo-Hogbetsotso Festival