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 ...

Nana Ama Mcbrown, Bill Asamoah, Kwadwo Nkansah, Emelia Brobey, etc Mourns With Boss.

The Chief Executive Officer of Miracle Films, Mr. Samuel Akwasi Nyamekye has recently lost his father and most of the Kumawood stars he worked with stormed the funeral grounds to support him.






It was a big Kumawood reunion as actors, producers, and other players in the industry joined Mr. Samuel Nyamekye o to bury his late father. Samuel Nyamekye, the popular movie producer who is credited as the pioneer of the Kumawood movie industry. 


 On Saturday, October 24, 2020,Mr. Samuel Nyamekye and his family held the final funeral rites of their old man but the funeral turned out to be a reunion of players in the Kumasi movie industry. Photo and videos circulating on social media shows , Emelia Brobbey, Agya Koo, Nana Ama Mcbrown, Kwodwo Nkansah and many others were present at the funeral to show support their brother.