Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
July
Rain is heavy south of the Sahara, but the festivals are aimed at a local audience. In
Morocco, Europeans flood the country and accommodation prices can be high and
availability low.
Harvest Festival
On the first Tuesday in July, Elmina (Ghana) hosts the colourful Bakatue Festival, a joyous
harvest thanksgiving feast. One of its highlights is watching the priest in the harbour waters
casting a net to lift a ban on fishing in the lagoon.
Fire Festival
In the heat of Tamale in Ghana, the Dagomba Fire Festival commemorates the local legend
whereby a chief was overjoyed to find his missing son asleep under a tree. Angry that the
tree had hidden his son, he punished it by having it burnt.
Wrestling Festival
In Togo's north, watch out for Evala, the coming-of-age and wrestling festival in the Kabyé
region around Kara.
