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Kobine festival

Ghana

The Kobine Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Lawra in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The festival is celebrated in the month of September every year.

Anthony Karbo at the Kobine Festival. Seated in between (r) Amidu Chiana (Deputy Upper West Regional Minister) and (l) Alhassan Sulemana
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The Kobine Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Lawra in the Upper West Region of Ghana.

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02 · Where & name
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03 · How it is doing
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The Kobine Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Lawra in the Upper West Region of Ghana.

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The Kobine Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Lawra in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The festival is celebrated in the month of September every year.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Kobine Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

Kobine festival is festival of the people of Lawra, 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. 1

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