Winneba Masquerade Festival : The First Party Of The Year In Ghana

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If you want to start your New Year with colour, celebration, and pure energy, there is only one place to be on 1st January, Winneba . While everybody is still sleeping after 31st Night, Winneba is already awake. Drums, brass band, costumes, masks. This is the Winneba Masquerade Festival, locally called Fancy Dress. It is the first major festival in Ghana every year. And it is the second biggest festival in Winneba after Aboakyer. There is a morning in Winneba that does not feel like any other morning in Ghana. By 7am, you can hear it. The brass band far away. The drum, shouting and the crowd. If you are in Winneba on that day, you cannot stay in your room. The sound will drag you out. I remember the first time I followed the sound. I thought something had happened. I thought maybe there was a funeral. But when I reached the road, I saw something I had never seen before. Men wearing masks. Big, colourful, scary, beautiful masks. Some looked like animals. Some looked like old white men ...

Ghanaian- Japanese Lady Crowned Miss Universe Japan

 Born on January 4, 1996 to a Ghanaian father and Japanese mother, Tochigi grew up in Japan and has been involved in volunteer activities both in Japan and Ghana since 2006. 






The Ghanaian-Japanese lady from Chiba crowned 2020 Miss Universe Japan. She will represent Japan in the 69th edition of Miss Universe.

Aisha was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2020 on Thursday during the pageant's finals in Tokyo, whiles Japanese-Nigerian Raimu kaminashi placed first runner-up, reported by Missology Japan.

It was the 23rd edition of Miss Universe Japan. It was Tochigi’s second time to compete in the beauty pageant that selects Japan’s representative to Miss Universe