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 ...

Kwaw Kese 'Slaps' Samini And Sarkodie

Emmanuel Kofi Botchwey, known by his stage name Kwaw Kese and popularly called Abodam, is a Ghanaian hiplife artist. Kwaw Kese is well known for his hit album Abodam 2007, for which he won five awards at the 2008 edition of the Ghana Music Awards.


Emmanuel Kofi Botchwey, known by his stage name Kwaw Kese


Hiplife artiste Kwaw Kese has called out two of his colleagues Samini and Sarkodie for endorsing a political party ahead of the upcoming elections which is some few weeks away.

According to him, Samini and Sarkodie are political artistes who have chosen to endorse the NPP just to make money this period.

The ‘Dondo’ hitmaker took his followers back to 2016 where he stated that Shatta Wale made a lot of money after he somehow endorsed the NDC with his Mahama paper song.

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Emmanuel Kofi Botchwey


Few days ago Sarkodie released a song with Lynx Entertainment signee Kuami Eugene titled Happy Day where he called on Ghanaians to give Nana Akuffo Addo the opportunity to continue the rest of the 4 years.

Samini on the other hand also dropped a song titled ‘kpoyaka’ where he listed some achievements of the current government and asked that Ghanaians should vote and retain them in government again.

However, the flagbearer of the biggest opposition party John Dramani Mahama has stated that he is not bothered with the top celebrities endorsing his opponent and has asked that no celebrity openly comes out to endorse him due to the aftermath of every election.