The Gbidukor Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Gbi in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of November. It is claimed the festival rotates between Hohoe and Peki.
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The Gbidukor Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Gbi in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of November. It is claimed the festival rotates between Hohoe and Peki. 1
Celebrations
During the festival, there is pomp and pageantry. The chiefs are carried in palanquins whiles there is drumming and singing. There is also the initiation of new development projects. 1
Significance
The festival is celebrated to mark the exploits of the ancestors of the Gbi-Ewes. It also marks the period of family re-unions and the attraction of people both far and near. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Gbidukor Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Gbidukor Festival is festival of Gbi people in the Volta region, 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 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2
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