SENYA BERAKU

Senya Beraku Traditional Area is in the Awutu Senya District of the Central Region. The people of this land are Guans and they speak the Senya dialect. Fishing is the dominant occupation of the people but farming, building construction, dress making, hairdressing, trading, driving, mechanics and teaching provide other means of livelihood. The Senya Beraku Akumase festival is traditional farming processes that culminate into the August celebration of bumper harvest in August each year. It is a festival that recounts the greatest historical famine that ever struck the community and how our ancestors were able to use systematic agricultural process to combat the affliction, eventually ending it with bumper harvest. The festival is celebrated in the third week of August each year. The celebration is spearheaded by the Nkyiew Anu patrilineal family, who are the custodians of the festival. All other patrilineal families also spearhead one ritual/tradition or the other, making the festival

TUES. AUGUST 16 General Clean-up exercise THURS. AUGUST 18 Lifting of Ban on Drumming Ceremony FRI. AUGUST, 19 1. Path Clearing – by the Dentiwo Asafo Company 2. Asafo Procession 3. “Atta Kwesi Ndaase” – Children’s parade 4. Variety Entertainment SAT. AUGUST 20 1. Family Re-union 2. Social Functions 3. Sports/ Games 4. Variety Entertainment SUN. AUGUST 21 1. Traditional Retual Ceremonies 2. Social Functions 3. Sports/ Games 4. Variety Entertainment MON. AUGUST 22 1. Path-Clearing – by the Tuawo Asafo Company 2. Asafo Procession 3. Variety Entertainment TUES. AUGUST 23 1. Traditional Groups Procession 2. State Durbar 3. Variety Entertainment

Senya Beraku Traditional Area is in the Awutu Senya District of the Central Region. The people of this land are Guans and they speak the Senya dialect. Fishing is the dominant occupation of the people but farming, building construction, dress making, hairdressing, trading, driving, mechanics and teaching provide other means of livelihood. The Senya Beraku Akumase festival is traditional farming processes that culminate into the August celebration of bumper harvest in August each year. It is a festival that recounts the greatest historical famine that ever struck the community and how our ancestors were able to use systematic agricultural process to combat the affliction, eventually ending it with bumper harvest. The festival is celebrated in the third week of August each year. The celebration is spearheaded by the Nkyiew Anu patrilineal family, who are the custodians of the festival. All other patrilineal families also spearhead one ritual/tradition or the other, making the festival