Gualla Festival is an annual harvest festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Lambussie Traditional Area in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of December.
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Gualla Festival is an annual harvest festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Lambussie Traditional Area in the Upper West Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of December. 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 for a bumper harvest and used to appease the gods and ancestors for good yields. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Gualla Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Gualla Festival is Festival of the people of Lambussie, 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
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