Nyigbla Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Afife near Akatsi in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of February.
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Nyigbla Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Afife near Akatsi in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of February. 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. War dances, bonfires and songs climax the occasion. 1
Significance
This festival is celebrated for thanksgiving and the commemoration of the Anlo-Ewe migration to their present area. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Nyigbla Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Nyigbla Festival is Festival of the people of Afife 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
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