FETU AFAHYE

Straddling the last week of August and the first week of September, in Cape Coast. Fetu Afahye is a very colorful festival. Like all other major cultural events, it features music and dance performances, as well as a procession of chiefs. During the festivities, a cow is sacrificed at the foot of the city's guardian tree: "Afahye". The celebration is an address to the gods to ask them to ward off diseases, epidemics that once ravaged the ranks of the Cape Coast population.