Ogua Fetu Afahye 2021
2021-09-04 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
The Fetu Afahye is a festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. The festival is celebrated on the first Saturday in the month of September every year. The Fetu Afahye is celebrated annually by the Oguaa people of Cape Coast because in the past there was an outbreak of disease among the people that killed many. The people prayed to the gods to help them to get rid of the disease. Thus the festival is celebrated to keep the town clean and to prevent another epidemic befalling the people.

The Odwira Festival 2021
2021-09-27 08:00 - 2021-10-03 17:00
The Odwira festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Fanteakwa District in the Eastern region of Ghana. The Odwira Festival is celebrated by the people of Akropong-Akuapim, Aburi, Larteh and Mamfi. This is celebrated annually in the month of September. The festival celebrates a historic victory over the Ashanti in 1826.

This was the battle of Katamansu near Dodowa. This was during the reign of the 19th Okuapimhene of Akropong, Nana Addo Dankwa 1 from 1811 to 1835. It is a time of spiritual purification where the people are renewed and receive protection. It is also celebrated by the people of Jamestown in Accra. This is due to the associations formed through the intermarriages of the Ga and Akuapem people

Hogbetsotso Festival 2021
2021-11-06 08:00 - 17:00
The week-long Hogbetsotso festival commemorates the migration of the Anlo-speaking Ewes, an ethnic group on the eastern coast of Ghana, from the ancient walled city of Notsie in present day northern Togo to their current home in Ghana. According to legend, the Anlo-Ewes escaped the wicked chief, Ago Koli, by walking backwards amidst dancing and drumming to war songs. Each year the AnloEwes hold the Hogbetsotso festival, or "Festival of the Exodus," to remember their journey and the brave leaders who guided them

Ovazu 2021
2021-12-11 08:00 - 17:00
Ovazu is a Festival of Harvest in Akposso and Akebou Land. ” OVAZU” is composed of the Akposso words: ” Ova” (corn) and ” Zu” (festival). According to history, corn played a significant role in the battles against the enemies of the Akposso people.Ovazu is celebrated annually, every 2nd Saturday of December alternatively in Amlamé and Badou

Afrochella 2021
2021-12-27 08:00 - 2022-01-02 17:00
The Afrochella Experience Is A Celebration Of Africa's Diverse Culture And The Vibrant Work Of African Creative & Entrepreneurs

Voodoo Festival 2021
2021-12-30 08:00 - 2022-01-12 17:00
The annual voodoo festival in Ouidah offers a unique opportunity to experience mesmerizing voodoo practices, traditional and local beliefs and other festive events peculiar to this time of the year.

Akwasidae 2022
2022-01-23 08:00 - 17:00
It is celebrated by the Ashanti people, and Chiefs in Ashanti, as well as Ashanti diaspora. The festival is celebrated on a Sunday, once every six weeks. The celebration marks the seasons and the timing for various agricultural activities. The significance of the festival is for the commemoration of ancestors.

Homowo Festival 2022
2022-08-13 | Ga Paramount stool Opposite, Accra
Homowo is a harvest festival celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana in the Greater Accra Region. The festival starts in the month of August with the planting of crops (mainly maize and yam) before the rainy season starts. During the festival, they perform a dance called Kpanlogo.

Global Citizen Festival
2022-09-24 | Black Star Square, Accra
Ghana's 65th anniversary of independence, as well as the 20th anniversary of the African Union, also fall in 2022, offering a greater opportunity for collaboration to move the continent and the world towards equality, development, and zero poverty.

James Town Arts festival
2023-04-22 10:00 - 17:00 | James Town Community Theatre Center, Ghana

ABOAKYER FESTIVAL 2023
2023-04-28 - 2023-05-07 | Winneba
The festival occurs on the first Saturday in May and the celebrations last all weekend. This festival is now more commonly known as the deer-hunting festival, as the human sacrifices have been replaced with the hunting and slaying of an antelope.In the morning of Aboakyer day, the paramount Chiefs, sub-chiefs, dignitaries and the public assemble at the durbar grounds to wait for the catch amidst drumming and dancing. There is jubilation through the streets until the deer is deposited at the shrine to await slaughter the next day.

International AmoFest
2023-05-27 18:00 | Amphitheatre- Alliance Francaise, Accra, Ghana
International AmoFest is a festival dedicated to global music, folk music, ethnojazz, and fusions with other genres. The festival’s purpose is to provide a diverse program and to create an event that would energize and bring together black people from all over the world. Our festival is full of musical variety. Accra appears to be the ideal African location for this International AmoFest, as it has become a hub for diaspora blacks. It’s only natural to create and grow a local music subculture.

Edina Bakatue Festival
2023-07-03 - 2023-07-04 | Elmina, Central Region, Ghana
Tradition has preserved for Edinaman and its generations a marvellously rich Annual Festival which is second to none, captioned “Bakatue”. This festival has remained much treasured and constitutes the priceless cultural heritage of its citizens.
Bakatue is a festival of the people of Elmina township and its traditional area, a geographical stool land more appropriately referred to as “EDINAMAN”.
Bakatue falls on the first Tuesday of July (the month of Ayewoho) each year. It is celebrated in honor of the founder of the central town Elmina, the headquarters to Edina Traditional Area.

PrePanafest Activity 2023.
2023-07-19 - 2023-07-23
SLAVE ROUTE PILGRIMAGE AND ATONEMENT CEREMONIES
Leading up to the festival a 3-4day pilgrimage along the slave route mapped under the UNESCO slave route project will be offered as an option. Atonement ceremonies developed over the last few years will be held. Sites of Memory which hold the untold stories of excruciating burden and tremendous resilience of the peoples of Northern Ghana will be the focus of this pilgrimage.

PANAFEST/ EMANCIPATION DAY 2023
2023-07-19 - 2023-08-01 | Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Organised by the PANAFEST Foundation in Collaboration with the Ghana Tourism Authority and the Leaders and People of the Central Region of Ghana. Under the Auspices of the Government of the Republic of Ghana.
The PANAFEST Festival was inspired by and takes its source from a paper written in 1980 entitled “Proposal for a Historical Drama Festival in Cape Coast” by Dr. Mrs. Efua Sutherland, who was a distinguished Ghanaian Dramatist and Pan-Africanist. In 1991 the idea gained root and took shape in an expanded form as the Pan-African Historical Theater Festival (PANAFEST).

Wreath Laying and Tribute to the Pan A frican Pioneers
2023-07-24
WREATH LAYING & TRIBUTE TO THE PAN AFRICAN PIONEERS
A major event for PANAFEST and Emancipation Day will consist of a Wreath laying programme and Tribute to the Pan African Pioneers in Accra beginning at the W.E.B. DuBois Centre for Pan African Culture and continuing to the George Padmore Library and ending up at the Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.

Pan African Arts Market.
2023-07-24 | Chapel Square , Cape Coast., Cape coast
A one-day pop up Pan African Market will be set up in the vicinity. This market will be prelude to the PANAFEST Expo and will feature artisans and creative brilliance (artefacts, fashion, natural cosmetics, food, drinks).

Colloquium, Master Classes and Workshops.
2023-07-25 08:00 - 2023-07-27 17:00 | Chapel Square , Cape Coast., Cape coast
COLLOQUIUM, LECTURES, ASSEMBLIES and DIALOGUES
Working with the University of Cape Coast and other partners such as the HBCU’s and African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA), a colloquium is held based on the festival theme . A selection of papers presented and proceedings will be published. Internationally renowned speakers will be invited to address at the colloquium. The colloquium will feature major virtual sessions and will be streamed live, accessible by event tickets.

Return Journey and Akwaaba Ceremony
2023-07-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast, Ghana
RETURN JOURNEY AND AKWAABA CEREMONY
The Programme will begin in the early morning with a gathering at the entrance of the Cape Coast Castle/Dungeon. A limited number of pre-selected Returnees will form a circle to invoke the spirit of the ancestors before proceeding to and through the “Door of No Return” to board canoes to begin the journey to Elmina “Castle” Fort, where “it all began”
Upon arrival, the Chiefs and Elders of Edina will meet the “Returnees” at the shore and pour libations to thank the ancestors for a safe journey and for the “Return”. The returnees will be led to the forecourt of the Fort for the Akwaaba durbar with the Chiefs, Queen Mothers and people of Edina. An atonement act and a traditional meal sharing of “Oto” (sacred mashed yam and eggs) between Diaspora returnees and Chiefs and Edinaman community members will be held. After the ceremony, the Chiefs, Elders and Diaspora family will process down the main street of Elmina Township to the Omanhen Palace to bring the commencement of PANAFEST to the attention of the public.

Ancestor Veneration
2023-08-19 09:00 - 2023-08-20 18:00 | Nkyinkyim Nuhalenya, Ada Ghana, Ghana
This annual festival occurs in the second week of August, and is deeply influenced by southern Ghanaian culture, especially Ghana’s Ga-Dangme traditions. August is the month of Homowo and Asafotufiam; both are Ga festivals, though generally rooted in shared West African traditional rites.
The festival is also known for the libation, prayers and traditional African rites that are performed for enslaved ancestors.
It has become a custom for the museum to also unveil new work created by artists at the museum.

Oguaa Fetu Festival 2023
2023-08-28 - 2023-09-02 | Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
The Fetu Afahye is a festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana.[1] The festival is celebrated on the first Saturday in the month of September every year.[1] The Fetu Afahye is celebrated annually by the Oguaa people of Cape Coast because in the past there was an outbreak of disease among the people that killed many. The people prayed to the gods to help them to get rid of the disease. Thus the festival is celebrated to keep the town clean and to prevent another epidemic befalling the people.

GAWBO FEST 2023
2023-09-19 - 2023-09-21 | Accra Metropolitan Assembly Headquaters., GD-009-9656, Accra, Ghana
The annual Association of Writers Book Festival 2023 involves the following activities;
MASTER CLASSES;WORKSHOPS;PERFORMANCES;COMPETITIONS;READING SESSIONS;CONVERSATIONS;FILM SCREENING;FACE PAINTING,SALES/EXHIBITION OF BOOKS BOOK LAUNCHES,LIVE PAINTING AND LITERARY/ ART MATERIALS.
GAWBOFEST : making Ghana a reading nation

Yam Festival 2023
2023-09-21 | Ho, Ho, Ghana
Asogli Yam Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the people of Asogli in the Ho Municipality located in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is celebrated in September annually to celebrate the cultivation of yam that was started by a hunter who found the tuber in the forest during his hunting expedition.

Ghana Theatre Festival 2023
2023-09-26 - 2023-10-01 | National Theatre
Conversations hosted by the National Theatre of Ghana,
THEME: “Celebrating Ghanaian Culture and Heritage through partnerships and linkages”

OKYIR FESTIVAL 2023
2023-10-08 07:00 - 2023-10-16 20:00 | NKANSAH PARK, Ghana
The Okyir Festival is an annual event celebrated by the people of Akan in Ghana, West Africa. It is a harvest festival that typically takes place between September and October. During this festival, the Akan people give thanks to their deities and ancestors for the bountiful harvest and seek their blessings for the upcoming year.
The festival is marked by various cultural activities including traditional dances, music, feasting, and colorful processions. It’s an important time for the community to come together, strengthen social bonds, and celebrate their cultural heritage.

OKYIR FESTIVAL 23: SPECIAL CHORAL CONCEPT
2023-10-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Anomabo Methodist church
October is ANOMABO
Excitement awaits! Get ready for a fantastic event!
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OKYIR FESTIVAL 2023; CLEAN UO EXERCISE
2023-10-10 09:00 - 14:00
October is ANOMABO

School quiz semi-final @ NKANSAH PARK -10:00 AM
Feeding of gods - 12:00 PM
MAN OBONOMA

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OKIR FESTIVAL 2023
2023-10-11 07:00 | ETSIWA BEACH
October is ANOMABO
Excitement awaits! Get ready for a fantastic event!

General cleaning of the beach
OBONOMA GYAADZE @ NKANSAH PARK - 1:00AM

Mark your calenders and join us on this journey as we unfold the progam for an incredible event! Dive into the details of our Anomabo Okyir upcoming programs and explore our scheduled highlights From start to Finish, here's Plan your day with our program outline- we've got something for everyone! Step-by-step, we'll guide you through our program's amazing lineup.
Check out the agaenda for an overview of our action- packed program-Its going to be epic!
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OKYIR FESTIVAL 2023
2023-10-12 09:00 - 21:00 | HEROES CENTER
OBONOMA TOURISM DAY @ HEROES CENTER- 9AM
HEALTH SREENING @ METHODIST CHURCH -9AM
SCHOOL QUIZ FINAL @ NKANSAH PARK - 9AM
OKYIR FOOTBALL LEAGUE FINAL @ ANKENYI PARK - 3PM
SHOW YOUR TORCH-7PM
VIGIL BY THE FETISH PRIEST / PRIESTESS (AKOMS NIGHT) -9PM

OKYIR FESTIVAL 23
2023-10-13 09:00 - 21:00 | NKANSAH PARK, Ghana
HEALTH SCREENING @ THE METHODIST CHURCH - 9:00AM
PARADING THROUGH THE TOWN AND SLAUGHTERING OF COW
PINK FRIDAY - 3:00PM
ARTIST NIGHT JAMS @ NKANSAH PARK - 9:00PM
