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 ...

Koo Fori 'Boozed' In Carlifornia

Seth Kwabena Karikari also known as Koo Fori is a comic actor,popularly known booze-loving-tenant was seen in a video trending on social media 'boozed' in the streets of California.

Seth Kwabena Karikari also known as Koo Fori is a comic actor


Koo Fori , one of the leading characters in 'Efiewura', a popular Ghanaian television series. He played the role of a booze-loving-tenant. Koo Fori played the role so well that, it won him many fans and recognition in the Ghana Movie Industry.

The comic actor in recent times has been off screen and has been living in the United States for sometime, in a video trending on social media the actor was seen performing his comic drunkard-gesture in the streets of California whiles pedestrians walking  were happy.

Meanwhile,Koo Ofori says his role hasn't affected his business and affiliations because he doesn't drink in real life.

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