Bob-ngo Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Jirapa Traditional Area in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of April.
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Bob-ngo Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Jirapa Traditional Area in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of April. 1
Celebrations
During the festival, visitors are welcomed to share food and drinks. The people put on traditional clothes and there is durbar of chiefs. There is also dancing and drumming. 1
Significance
This festival is celebrated to mark an event that took place in the past. It is celebrated to lift the taboo on the harvesting of the Dawadawa crop which was claimed to be food for the slaves and slave raiders in the past. It is claimed without this festival, it is a taboo to harvest the crop. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bob-Ngo Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Bob-ngo Festival is Festival of the people of Jirapa, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 2 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. 2
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