ABOAKYER FESTIVAL MAY 3/4 2008-WINNEBA
This exciting and unique festival has been celebrated for hundreds of years in Ghana. Two warrior groups,
dressed in full traditional regalia, set out to capture an antelope with their bare hands.
The first group to bring home a live catch to the chief and elders is declared the winner. The hunt
itself takes place on the Saturday, but the Sunday highlight is when the captured antelope is sacrificed to the fetish.
FETU AFAHYE-JULY 2008-CAPE COAST
The Oguaa Fetu Afahye is an occasion for the people of Cape Coast to perform libation prayers and sprinkle
yam to their ancestors as well as to the 77 gods of Oguaa.
These rites are performed to thank them for land and sea
yields that have sustained the people during the past years and ask for abundant yields in the year to come.
The Fetu
Afahye programme takes off with the Omanhen’s Yam Festival to be followed by a series of other activities — both
traditional and modern. These activities comprise a ban on drumming and fishing in the Fosu Lagoon, cleansing and renovation
of shrines and the Omanhen’s confinement.
Other activities are vigil for traditional priests and priestesses,
Bakatue — lifting of ban on fishing, Asafo bonfires, Afahye Day procession, State Dance, Thanksgiving service and beach
party.
