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The climate of Ghana is tropical and there are two main seasons: the wet and the dry seasons. [4] North Ghana experiences its rainy season from April to mid-October while South Ghana experiences its rainy season from March to mid-November. [4] The tropical climate of Ghana is relatively mild for its latitude. [4]
Festivals in Ghana are celebrated for many reasons pertaining to a particular tribe or culture, usually having backgrounds relating to an occurrence in the history of that culture. Examples of such occurrences have been hunger, migration, purification of either gods or stools, etc.
The Gologo festival which is also known as the Golib festival is celebrated in the month of March at the end of the dry season before the sewing of the early millet (Ansah, 1997; Allman & Parker, 2005). Tengzug, Santeng, Wakii, Gbeogo, Yinduri/Zandoya, Shia, Gorogo and Spart are the communities which celebrate the festival.
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Homowo is a festival celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana in the Greater Accra Region. [1] The festival starts at the end of April into May with the planting of crops (mainly millet) before the rainy season starts. The Ga people celebrate Homowo in the remembrance of famine that once happened in their history in precolonial Ghana. [1]
Kakube Festival is celebrated by the people of Nandom in the Upper West Region of Ghana. [1] The festival is celebrated to show gratitude to the gods for their protection and guidance throughout the farming season and also to mark the end of the farming season.
The festival is used to mark the beginning of the fishing season in Elmina. [3] The name Bakatue is from the Fante dialect and translates as "draining of a lagoon". [4] The celebration of the festival was instituted to commemorate the founding of Elmina by the Portuguese in the early days of the colonization of the then Gold Coast. [4]
Jintigi (Fire) Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the chiefs and people of Gonja Traditional Area in the Savannah Region, formally the Northern region of Ghana. Damongo which is the capital of Gonjaland serves as the epicenter of the festival. It is usually celebrated in the month of April.