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 ...

Kofi B To Be Buried On November 7, 2020

Family of the late Highlife artiste, Kofi Boakye Yiadom, popularly known as Kofi B, has announced 6th-8th November as the days for the final funeral rites of the musician.
Mr Kwame Addo , an uncle of the musician in an interview revealed that the late singer will be buried at Asante Agogo after lying in state at the Agogo Presbyterian Park in the Ashanti Region. The family will host a thanksgiving service on the Sunday 8th November.

Mr. Kwame Addo used the opportunity to call on sympathizers to join them to pay their final respect to the late musician.
Kofi B who was scheduled to perform at a concert in Cape Coast died after he was rushed to the hospital. This sad incident happened febuary 2, 2020.