Edina Bakatue: A look at one of Ghana's most colourful festivals
Versus the coastal town of Elmina in southern Ghana, the people are marking what would be six weeks of dancing, drumming, heralding the beginning of the bakery festival. The people, many of them were groups within this community, will dance, drum and sing around, making whistle stops on each location where the people who first settled here, had the shrines settled what they are having now. Is known in the lookout fancy dialect as Coba Gutu. It's literally means they're overturning of the wooden lid, which is what is used in buying and selling fish, the mainstay of the local economy here in Elmina. When that day comes, you see the fatty streets were the Nananum parade through the street of Fiamina. Offshore this concoction. Into the lagoon and that go to signify that we have pacified all the 77 divinities in deity of Elmina, African indigenous cosmology and cosmovision. Festivals are very important. They help the people to recognize time and changes in the seasons as some of these festivals instituted. Colourful festivals like the Bakatai and several others celebrated across the country are part of the plethora of events that have fired up Ghana's Year of Return initiative. Launched in 2019 to encourage people in the diaspora to return to Ghana and onto the African continent. Elminas place in history as you make a test. The place where Europeans first birthed at the onset of the slave trade more than 400 years ago.