List of festivals in Ghana
Ghanaian festivals
Festivals in Ghana mang taa diibu neng sobi-gyamaa teseng saakommo nang senne, gbԑԑ gyamaa mang taa la bammo mine kyaare neng a ananso kyaare neng a saakommo yeltare. A yele ama taaba mine la a kɔŋ, teŋyoge gaabo, ŋmemɛ maaloo bee nakogi mine maaloo, neng amine kaŋa
Tige mine ane wagere nang ba nang mang di a
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]| Festival in Ghana | Ethnic group that celebrates |
|---|---|
| Bakatue[1] | Elmina (Fante) |
| Homowo[2][3] | Ga |
| Aboakyer | Efutu (Winneba) |
| Kundum[4] | Nzema[5] |
| Foo (Fao) | Navrongo[citation needed] |
| Kpini Chugu (Guinea fowl Festival) | Dagombas, Mamprusis, Nanumbas, Kokombas and Basaris[6] |
| Ohum[7] | Akim,[8] Akuapem[9] |
| Hogbetsotso[10] | Anlo[11] |
| Ngmayem | Krobo[12] |
| Volo (Me/Lomo) | Volos |
| Yam[13] | Ho[14] |
| Buɣum Chuɣu (Fire Festival)[15]al)[16] | Dagomba Dagbon, Gonja, Mamprusi and Nanumba[17] |
| Beng | Gonja[18] |
| Lukusi | Ve (Near Hohoe) |
| Danyiba | Kpando[19] |
| Fetu Afahye[20] | Oguaa (Cape Coast) |
| Adae Kese | Ashanti Etc. |
| Adae | Asante,Akim, Akwamu |
| Asafotufiam | Ada |
| Dzawuwu Festival | Agave |
| Fiok | Builsa |
| Apafram | Akwamu |
| Osudoku Festival | Asutsuare |
| Afenorto Festival | Mepe |
| Papa Festival | Kumawu |
| Opemso Festival[citation needed] | Kokofu-Anyinam |
| Ɔvazu Festival[citation needed] | Akposo |
| Damba festival | Dagomba people, Gonja, Mamprusi |
| Apoo festival | Techiman, Wenchi |
| Eddie Festival | Wasa people |
Commemorating farming season
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- Kakube festival
- Kobine Festival
Commemorating migration
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- Akwantukese Festival
- Hogbetsotso festival
- Keta-Some Tutuza
- Suma Akwantukese
Saakonnong
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- Akwasidae Festival
- Aboakyer festival
- Easter
- Christmas
- Eid al-Fitr
- Eid al-Adha
Amine
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- Agadevi (Have, Afadzato South District, Volta Region)
- Agbamevo Festival
- Ahobaa
- Akwambo festival
- Akwantutenten (Worawora, Volta Region)
- Amu Festival
- Apoor
- Asafotu-fiam (Ada in the Eastern region)
- Asafotufiam Festival
- Asafua Festival
- Asogli Yam Festival
- Atu-Ho-Akye (Ejisu, Ashanti Region)
- Ayimagonu Festival
- Ayimagonu Festival
- Bakatue festival
- Beng Festival
- Chale Wote Street Art Festival
- Damba festival
- Danso Abaim & Ntoa Fukokuese Festivals (Techimentia & Nkoranza, in the Brong Ahafo Region)
- Dipo Festival (Manya Krobo, Yilo Krobo, Eastern Region)
- Dzawuwu Festival
- Dzohayem (Osudoku, Greater Accra)
- Edina Buronya Festival
- Eiok (War Festival)
- Alluolue festival
- Fetu Afahye
- Fiok ( Sandema by the Builsas)
- Gbidukor Festival
- Gbidukor Festival
- Glimetoto Festival
- Golob (Tengzung, Upper East Region)
- Gologo festival
- Gwolgu
- Munufie festival
- Jintigi (All Gonja Towns, Northern Region)
- Kente Festival (Bonwire, Ashanti Region)
- Kloyosikplem festival (Ghana Eastern region)
- Kobine
- Kpalikpakpa zã (Kpalime Traditional Area in the Volta Region)
- Kpini-Kyiu Festival (Wa & Tongu, in the Upper East Region)
- Kpledjoo
- Kundum Festival
- Kwafie
- Meet Me There Weekender
- Mmoanniko Festival
- Nkyidwo (Essumeja)
- Ntoa Fokuose
- Nyidwoo
- Odambea Festival
- Odwira festival
- Paragbeile Festival
- Rice festival (Akpafu, in the Volta Region)
- Sasadu Festival
- Sometutuza (Keta)
- Tenghana Festival (Wa & Tongu, in the Upper East Region)
- Tongu Upper East Region
- Waala Festival (Takpo, Upper West Region)
- Yaa Asantewaa Festival
Oti Region)
- Ɔvazu Festival (Akposokubi) Oti Region, formally Volta/Trans-Volta Togoland
Sommo Yizie
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- ↑ https://www.ghanawebsolutions.com/serve.php?id=543&d=Bakatue-Festival
- ↑ https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/tribes/homowo_festival.php
- ↑ https://yochale.com/homowo-festival-in-ghana
- ↑ http://www.travel-to-discover-ghana.com/kundum-festival.html
- ↑ http://www.ghanaculture.gov.gh/index1.php?linkid=65&archiveid=1727&page=1
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190922105625/https://www.ghanagrio.com/tourism/The-Northern-Region.php
- ↑ https://www.modernghana.com/news/414230/ohum-starts.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190127094745/https://rediscoveringafricaheritage.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/akyem-people-of-ghana/
- ↑ https://www.graphic.com.gh/entertainment/showbiz-news/choirmaster-for-awukugua-ohum.html
- ↑ http://www.travel-to-discover-ghana.com/hogbetsotso-festival.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190127094628/https://thisisafrica.me/lifestyle/anlo-ewe-people-ghana/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230602121731/https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/The+Krobo+People+of+Ghana+to+1892
- ↑ https://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2017/september-6th/asogli-promises-another-exciting-yam-festival-this-year.php
- ↑ http://www.ghanadistricts.com/Home/District/177
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190126221100/https://safarijunkie.com/culture/bugum-chugu-fire-festival-in-northern-ghana/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210803094653/http://ghanakey.com/ghana-festivals.html
- ↑ https://www.britannica.com/place/Dagomba-kingdom
- ↑ https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/A-Brief-History-of-Northern-Ghana-Focus-on-Gonja-249345
- ↑ http://kpma.gov.gh/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210612224730/https://afrotourism.com/travelogue/oguaa-fetu-afahye-festival-cape-coast-purifying-the-new-year/