1    PARAGBIELE  FESTIVAL 

DATE           Last week Jan.  1st week Feb

PLACE          Tumu

SIGNIFICANCE      

Thanksgiving to ancestors and Almighty God for guidance over the farming season.  Farm produce is exhibited alongside music, dance and general merry-making. 

2    WILAA  FESTIVAL 

DATE           27TH APRIL

PLACE          Takpo

SIGNIFICANCE

To thank the ancestral shrine  Wilaa for guidance and protection and also to ask for continued blessing from the shrine and God Almighty.

3    KALIBI  FESTIVAL 

DATE           April (1st week)

PLACE          Sankana

SIGNIFICANCE    

It commemorates the victory of the Sankana people over slave raiders in 1897.

4     ZUMBENTI  FESTIVAL 

DATE           April (1st week)

PLACE          Kaleo

SIGNIFICANCE      

Thanksgiving to ancestral gods, cleansing of the land of evil spirits and pacification of gods and re-uniting of families.  Considered the most opportune time to contract traditional marriages. 

5     KOBINE  FESTIVAL 

DATE           1st week October

PLACE          Lawra

SIGNIFICANCE

A post-harvest event to acknowledge the spiritual guidance of the traditional area by the ancestral gods as well as jubilate over the bountiful harvest.  Dancing competitions are organized. 

6     KAKUBE  FESTIVAL 

DATE           Last week Nov.  1st week in Dec.

PLACE          Nandom

SIGNIFICANCE      

To thank family gods and to ask them to bless the soil, protect the people during the farming seasons.