The Aboakyer (animal catch) Festival is a celebration of the Simpafo (or Effutufo)
people in and around Winneba, a town on the southern coast of Ghana.
The festival
commemorates the settlement of the people in the area following a migration from
the western Sudan in the middle of the first millennium CE. Once in the area, they
provided a place for their deity at a site name Penkye, and they called their god
Penkyi Otu.
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To this day, in the annual deer hunting festival held each May, the people keep this story alive and repeat it to the young people as they sit around the firs at night and sing about it in their songs. The Aboakyer Festival is a major annual celebration in Ghana.
References
Brown, Kwesi Ewusi. “Social Conflicts in Contemporary Effutu Festivals.” MA thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2005. Wyllie, Robert W. “Pastors and Prophets in Winneba, Ghana: Their Social Background and Career Development.” Africa, 44, no. 2 (1974): 186–93.
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