"Best of India Contest | My Favorite Festival"
Hello, good evening members of best of India 🇮🇳 I hope we are all doing well. It is a great pleasure been here. Thank you @bestofindia for this great contest. Indeed festivals are more important and interesting. It add value to our cultures and reunite families and friends.
A festival is a coordinated series of shows, plays, or movies, normally one held every year in a similar spot. My favorite festival is Damba festival which is celebrated by the Dagbombas, mamprusi and the waalas in the northern Region of Ghana 🇬🇭. All the three tribes and how they call it. Dagbombas call it Damba , Mamprusi call it Damma and Jingbenti in Waali.
Celebrations are an expressive way of celebrating heavenly legacy, culture and customs. They are intended to celebrate exceptional minutes and feelings in our lives with our friends and family. They assume a significant part to add construction to our public activities, and associate us with our families and foundations.
The festival proceeds for 10 days, with drumming and hordes of artists before the central's home each night. The Damba celebration remembers everybody for the local area. Muslims hold evening petitions each late evening paving the way to the Somba Damba, while others participate in singing and moving.
All the chiefs and their people will wear their smocks and prepare for damba. This festival is celebrated to remember the birth and naming ceremony of the Holy prophet Muhammad (SAW), however the main substance of the festival is a glorification of the chieftaincy, not explicit Islamic themes.
The Somo Damba, the Naa Damba and the Belkulsi are the three forms of Damba.
The soma damba is celebrated in all the eight days, the ninth day is the Naa damba and the tenth day is the belkulsi. On this day, the dagbambas, the mamprusi and the waalas will put on their smocks and ride horses 🐎, with their main chiefs and their wives. They will walk and jubilate all around the communities.
Their wives will carry water and also dress in their local dress called the kente. The women will be walking along with the chiefs. They don’t ride horses or any other things. They are just walking as a normal person.
This festival starts around 3:00pm and ends at 6:00pm, Ghanaian time.
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