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 ...

MANIFEST 'SHOT' FAN

M.anifest is a Ghanaian rapper, singer and songwriter. He won Best Rapper and Hip-Hop song of the year at the 2017 Ghana Music Awards.


MANIFEST 'SHOT' FAN



The father of Ghanaian rapper Manifest is Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata,who is a member of the National Democratic Congress.He was once the lead Counsel for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in an electoral petition in Ghana.

Well, a fan commented under one of Manifest’s post on Facebook telling him to compose a song for the NDC party as a way of supporting his father’s party.

“Manifest kindly support your father’s party and release a song for it“, the fan commented.In his reply, he asked the follower that is he talking about ‘birthday party or Christmas party?”