SENYA AKUMASE FESTIVAL – BRIEF HISTORY
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 both dramatically splendid and traditionally colourful. Meanwhile, the festival, being a systematic farming process, starts from mid February by the performance of various farming rituals and minor festivals, and eventually ends with the grand celebration in August.
The Akumase festival also relives the victory of stories of our past and ushers in the new harvest, and it is also the period where the people display the rich tradition and culture with antique uniqueness.
The week long festival starts from the third Tuesday of August and ends on the following Tuesday. Activities organized during the festival include: Clean up exercises, path clearing by the two Asafo Companies, “Atta Kwesi Ndaase” – children’s parade with brassband music, family re-union meetings, social functions, sports, games, traditional rituals, regatta, church services, state dance, state durbar, fundraising activities and variety entertainment.
The 2011 Akumase Festival starts from Tuesday, August 16 to August 25, 2011.
Posted by
Abeiku Okai (B.I.C.)
(Secretary of Senya Akumase Committee)
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 both dramatically splendid and traditionally colourful. Meanwhile, the festival, being a systematic farming process, starts from mid February by the performance of various farming rituals and minor festivals, and eventually ends with the grand celebration in August.
The Akumase festival also relives the victory of stories of our past and ushers in the new harvest, and it is also the period where the people display the rich tradition and culture with antique uniqueness.
The week long festival starts from the third Tuesday of August and ends on the following Tuesday. Activities organized during the festival include: Clean up exercises, path clearing by the two Asafo Companies, “Atta Kwesi Ndaase” – children’s parade with brassband music, family re-union meetings, social functions, sports, games, traditional rituals, regatta, church services, state dance, state durbar, fundraising activities and variety entertainment.
The 2011 Akumase Festival starts from Tuesday, August 16 to August 25, 2011.
Posted by
Abeiku Okai (B.I.C.)
(Secretary of Senya Akumase Committee)
Please what is the date for this year festival....
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DeletePlease which is chief of senya beraku community
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