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 ...

Berekum Edition! Kweku Smoke Announces Free "Revival Concert: The Homecoming" For September 5



The streets of the Bono Region are officially about to catch fire. Multiple award-winning Ghanaian rap titan Kweku Smoke has sent shockwaves through social media by announcing his highly anticipated flagship event—The Revival Concert: Berekum Edition (The Homecoming).

Scheduled for Saturday, September 5, 2026, this landmark outdoor concert is specifically packaged as a free-entry event powered by MTN MoMo. It serves as a massive thanksgiving and community-appreciation festival for the people of the Brong Ahafo enclave.



Who is Kweku Smoke?

For those tracking the global resurgence of African hip-hop, trap, and drill, the name Paul Amankwah,known globally by his showbiz moniker Kweku Smoke—demands immediate respect. He honed his lyrical style at Benkum Senior High School (where he initially created a school studio team named FlowMotion) before successfully graduating from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He initially released raw underground bars under the pseudonym YRS before officially re-branding to Kweku Smoke.

Rather than relying on one hit, Smoke continuously expanded his discography with heavy releases like Snoop Forever, Big Shmoke, and Eye Red. His consecutive chart-toppers,the highly spiritual album Kweku Jesus and the incredibly raw, introspective project Born In Hell, shattered digital records, sending him to the Number 1 spot on Apple Music/iTunes Ghana. His relentless work ethic culminated in sweeping major categories at the Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMA), taking home awards for Best Rap Performance, Best Hip Hop Song, and Best Hip Hop/Hiplife Artist.