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Odwira Festival

The Akuapem purification festival in the hills of Akropong, ending in a royal durbar.

Akuapem Odwira Festival, Ritual
Photo: Duncanoff, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

About Odwira Festival

Odwira is a week of purification and thanksgiving for the Akuapem people. It includes rites to honour the ancestors, the lifting of a ban on eating new yams, and a grand durbar where the paramount chief appears in full regalia. Akropong is about an hour from Accra.

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