What are traditional festivals in Ghana?

Ghana’s Top Festivals to Add to Your Bucket List

• Traditional Festivals.
• Homowo – May.
• Aboakyir – May.
• Bakatue – July.
• Asafotufiam – August.
• Oguaa Fetu Afahye – September.
• Hogbetsotso – September.
• Akwasidae – Once every six weeks.

What are traditional festivals?

These festivals make known some common qualities and beliefs of the Ghanaian society. There are over two hundred festivals, which is celebrated each year in Ghana. Among them are Adae and Akwasiddae, Dzwuwu, Apoo, Ngmayem, Dipo, Aboakyer/Antelope, Kundum, Fetu Afahye, Kobine, Odwira, and Sasabobrim and many others.

What are some Ghana traditions?

12 Traditions and Customs Only Ghanaians Can Understand

• The handshake.
• ‘You are invited’
• The left-handed insult.
• No music before Homowo.
• The Ghanaian salad.
• Inventing new words.
• Neon-pink chickens.
• Keeping the dead.

What are the most important festivals in Ghana?

To preserve and maintain cultural and traditional heritage. Below is a list of all traditional, religious commemorative festivals celebrated throughout the year in Ghana. These may not entirely consist of festivals of Ghanaian descent. Ɔvazu Festival (Akposokubi) Oti Region, formally Volta/ Trans-Volta Togoland.

Why is the Homowo festival celebrated in Ghana?

Homowo Festival is celebrated by the GA people of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The festival is to commemorate the period in their history when there was a serious famine in the land.

When is the Hogbetsotso Festival in Ghana celebrated?

The Hogbetsotso Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and people of Anloga in the Volta Region of Ghana on the first Saturday in the month of November. The name of the festival is derived from the Ewe language and translates as the festival of exodus or “coming from Hogbe, Notsie, a town in Togo.

When is the Odwira festival celebrated in Ghana?

The Odwira Festival is celebrated by the people of Akropong-Akuapim, Aburi, Larteh and Mamfe in the Eastern Region of Ghana. This is celebrated annually in the month of September.