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Damba festival which comes off tomorrow 31st January 2013 ,is celebrated among the Mole Dagombas in the the northern region of Ghana to commemorate the birth and naming ceremony of
the Holy Prophet Mohammed. Damba is celebrated according to the lunar calendar ,.Damba festival is a twin festive namely; “Somo” Damba and “Naa”
Damba. “Somo” Damba is celebrated to commemorate the birth of the
prophet and Naa-Damba is held to mark his naming ceremony. Approaching
the months named, Chiefs, elders and family heads not forgetting the
local folk are always on the lookout for the moon of Damba. It is
therefore common to see people raising their heads towards the sky each
evening desperately awaiting the moon to shoot up. This is the month the
Mamprusis call Damba “goori” or “billai”...cont.reading |
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There is a popular date in the history of Dagbon that every son of Great
Gbewaa knows.it is recalled by Dagbon drum historians as Adibo
Dalle(The Day of Adibo) this was the day over a century ago in September
1896 when Dagbon fought a battle with Germans colonizers at Adibo,a
village 10 kilometres south of Yendi.at the time the king who reigned
was Yaa Naa Andani II(popularly called Andan Naanigoo) and he said that
his kingdom Dagbon,would not be taken over by the white man and that he
would protect it at all cost.but his kingdom was threaten by the
European from all directions from the south by the Germans,from the west
the British and the from the north by the french.in all Dagbon resisted
colonialism for seven long years.
The
coffee lounge of parliament on Tuesday morning saw a very rare
occurrence as two of the newly elected honourable members of parliament
engaged in heated exchanges.
Site Dataa Na Tua is a place where men who have sex with women of Ya Na were decapitated.
The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has been spending GHc2,500,000
annually on sanitation since 2009, Alhaji Abdul Haruna said,
Apart from drumming, there are many other types of music in Dagbon.
There are other types of drums played by young people for recreational
purposes. The Dagbamba musical repertoire also features several types
of flutes, a musical bow that is similar to a Brazilian birimbao,
several types of horns, and several different plucked lutes; however,
apart from the hourglass drum ensemble, the instrument that has attained
the most popularity and visibility is a one-stringed bowed lute called
GOONJI. Variants of the name GOONJI are widespread in related
traditions: for example, the fiddle is called goge among the Hausa,
godji among the Songhay.
The German Cemetery, also known locally German grave, includes graves of German soldiers who died during the Dutch colonial era
Yendi is a town and the capital of Yendi municipal assembly in the northeastern quadrant of Ghana in the Dagbon territory. As of 2012, Yendi is the thirty-sixth most populous settlement in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 52,008 people.Yendi is the traditional capital of the Dagbon Kingdom with the Ya Na as the Overlord.