UW: Wa Royals celebrates Fire festival( Jinbenti/Bugu kyu) - Pictures

 The Waali. Nabiihi and Dagomba with permission from the overlord of the Waala traditional area,Wa Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo(IV) has for the first time celebrated the Jinbenti/Bugun kyuu (Fire festival) inWa.

They gathered at the Wa Naa palace and started the celebration on Wednesday,August 18,2021 from 8:00pm where they set fire on cut-grasses to hold and danced the Lonhi drums through some major streets in the Wa municipality.

However,the dancing/walking was led by traditional chiefs and followed by the youth.

The Bugum Chugu Fire Festival in Northern Ghana Fire is one of the most important holidays among people of Dagbon, but is well known also among Gonja, Mamprusi and Nanumba, all living in the Northern part of Ghana. It is celebrated at the beginning of every lunar year and therefore signifies the beginning of the New Year. In Dagbani language, fire festival is called “Bugum Chugu”.

The first month of so-called Dagomba calendar is called “Bugum Goli” (month of fire). Last “Bugum Chugu” took place on 23th of October 2015. If you travel around Northern Ghana just when fire festival takes place, you should observe, or, if you dare, join the crowd on the streets and experience how exciting and crazy can this festival be!

History of Fire Festival

The fire festival among Dagomba people in Dagbon was celebrated before the advent of Islam. Therefore doesn’t have much do to with Islam, although nowadays both Muslims and traditional believers celebrate it. The story of the festival’s origin goes like this:

Once, there lived a king of Dagbon who had a son. One night, this prince went missing. The whole community went out looking for him that night, holding torches in order to light the way. When they finally found him deeply asleep under the tree, they immediately took him back to his parents palace.

Prince’s parents decided to name that tree as an evil tree, since they consider the tree as the one that hide their son. Later on, everybody who helped to look for the prince, threw his torch at the evil tree in order to shame it. The king announced that day to be celebrated every following year to commemorate this event.

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