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Dipo rites are one of the most popular, yet criticized, puberty rites and practices in Ghana, yet is one of the most attended events in the country, receiving huge numbers of tourists. [1] The rite is performed by the people of Odumase Krobo in the Eastern region of Ghana. [2] The rite is performed in April every year. [2]
A Krobo girl undertaking Dipo ceremony. The Krobo people are an ethnic group in Ghana.They are grouped as part of Ga-Adangbe ethnolinguistic group and they are also the largest group of the seven Dangme ethnic groups of Southeastern Ghana.
A loss to Uruguay in Johannesburg on July 2, 2010, by a penalty shoot-out ended Ghana's attempt at reaching the semi-finals of the competition. [42] While men's football is the most widely followed sport in Ghana, the national women's football team is gaining exposure, participating in the FIFA Women's World Cup and the CAF Women's Championship.
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.
Osakwe is of the Igbo tribe.She studied at the Arts University Bournemouth where she received a BA in fashion studies. In autumn/winter 2010 she launched her label. Inspired by rural Ghana’s Dipo rites-of-passage ceremony, during which girls taking part are partially naked and ornately adorned, Osakwe has played with cloaking and ornamentation using traditional African fabrics. [3]
Teshie Homowo Festival Ban on Singing & Drumming Ritual Ceremony. Homowo festival rituals. Nungua Homowo Festival Painting. 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.
W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture is a memorial place, a research facility and tourist attraction in the Cantonments area of Accra, Ghana, that was opened to the public in 1985. It is named in dedication to W. E. B. Du Bois, an African-American historian and pan-Africanist who became a citizen of Ghana in the early 1960s. [1]
Seven days after birth, the naming ceremony is performed under the auspices of the father and/or the head of the household. The naming is done either in the indigenous traditional way, known as zugupinbu (meaning shaving of head) where a talisman or soothsayer is consulted to give a name to the new born baby or in the Islamic way, known as ...