First week of August Ada Foah
Asafotufiami Festival
The Ada people's warrior festival — musket volleys, durbar of chiefs, homecoming across the estuary. Cowrieking's home festival.
August Jamestown, Accra
Chale Wote Street Art Festival
West Africa's biggest street-art takeover — murals, performance, fashion and music across old Jamestown.
August – September Ga communities, Accra
Homowo Festival
The Ga 'hooting at hunger' harvest festival — sprinkling of kpokpoi, twin ceremonies, drumming bans lifted in joy.
July – August (biennial) Cape Coast & Elmina
Panafest & Emancipation Day
Pan-African theatre festival and reverential Door-of-No-Return ceremonies calling the diaspora home.
First Saturday of May Winneba
Aboakyer Deer Hunt Festival
Two Asafo companies race to catch a live antelope bare-handed for the gods — Ghana's oldest festival spectacle.
First Tuesday of July Elmina
Bakatue Festival
Opening of the lagoon fishing season — regatta of painted canoes, net-casting rites by the paramount chief.
Every 6th Sunday Manhyia Palace, Kumasi
Akwasidae Festival
The Asantehene receives homage in full gold regalia — drumming, horn-blowing, the Golden Stool venerated.
First Saturday of November Anloga, Volta Region
Hogbetsotso Festival
The Anlo-Ewe celebrate their legendary escape from Notsie — chiefs in state, the famous backward-walking dance.
August – November (rolling) Ahanta & Nzema, Western Region
Kundum Festival
Harvest thanksgiving of the coastal west — a month of drumming, dance and purification moving town to town.
First Saturday of September Cape Coast
Fetu Afahye
Oguaa state festival — cow sacrifice to the 77 gods, dazzling durbar procession through Cape Coast.
Varies (lunar) Tamale & the North
Damba Festival
Dagbon royal festival of horses, smocks and lunar drum histories.
Late December Accra
AfroFuture (Afrochella)
The diaspora's December pilgrimage — Afrobeats headliners, art, fashion and food in one giant homecoming.