Odambea Festival Coming Back Home To Yamoransah Where It Originally Belong - Nkusukum Traditional Area

[Shot] Chief addressing colleagues during press briefing

There are intriguing festivals all year round in Ghana that you should experience at least once in your life time .

Traditional festivals erupt with remarkable cultural and historic propensity.

Arts, food and music festivals come with creative dynamism, outstanding street tastes and exciting rare rhythm .

There are about seventy (70) major festivals in Ghana celebrated either to memorialize harvest seasons (the most common type usually after the rainy season), migration or territory expansion history, stool cleansing, just to mention few.

Such events consecrate family and communal bonds while extolling the colorful and installing spirituality of the people.

Odambea Festival, which is celebrated by the people of Nkusukum Traditional Area is one of these festivals in Ghana, which happens live this year August at Yamoransah where the Paramount Chief of the recognized Traditional Area resides.

Meanwhile, the legitimate Acting President of the Nkusukum Traditional Area, Nana Beenyi lll has emphatically stated without mincing words, grinding on the power vested in him by the council still holds on to his word that the Odambea Festival which remains a treasured asset to the Traditional Council will be celebrated nowhere other than Yamoransah, a suburb within the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region.

He exposed this in an interview to Kofitutu.Com, monitored by Darling FM's Anaafi Kokooto at a press briefing organized by the Nkusukum Traditional Council at Yamoransah.

Nana Beenyi lll disclosed that the traditional authority in which he belongs to by so doing is committing anything different than following all the cultural and customary procedures which run before the celebration of the memorable occasion.

"We are going to Yamoransah, Duadze, Kuntu, Penyim, Mankessim among other towns to perform all the necessary rites to welcome the memorable occasion to Yamorasah" he noted.

"l'm sending this as a signal to Nana Kwesi Brebo lll, Nana Baah and the other Chiefs that all communities within the Traditional Area belongs to the Paramount Chief, Nana Okese Essandoh lX who equally double as the Paramount Chief of Nkusukum Traditional Area, therefore nothing can stop him from exercising his chieftaincy rite by getting to the people under his Traditional Area to perform the necessary customary rite before the commencement of the Odambea Festival," he said.

The Acting Nkusukum Traditional Area President further admonished that any Chief or Queen who will try to prevent the Paramount Chief from performing this customary rite of his to embrace the Odambea Festival peacefully does so at his or her own detriment by destooling himself off his or her Queen or Kingship position.

He then cautioned indigenes that anyone who dares to celebrate the festival elsewhere other than Yamoransah evokes upon himself the rout of Nana Okese Essandoh IX, hence advised all to desist from such act.

"All the festivals which are to be celebrated at Nkusukum Traditional Area should be put on hold, as there is only one festival for the Omanhene of Yamoransah which is the Odambea Festival, therefore no one should dare celebrate any festival before the Odambea at any place under the Traditional Area," he concluded.

Moreover, history has it as narrated by the Omanhene of Yamoransah, Nana Okese Essandoh lX at the press briefing that the Odembea Festival was initially celebrated at Yamoransa until its short death from earmarking, which upon its revival in 1978 saw the festival moved to Saltpond (Akyemfo) due to the town's smaller size in nature then, thus its inability to accommodate its visitors who then travelled both far and near from the shores of Ghana and abroad to come witness the festive occasion, but added the current Yamoransah township has now evolved to become large and has developed enough to host its betrothed Odambea Festival, hence the decision to host this year's at the town where it originally belong.

Source: Anaafi Kokooto (Darling 90.9FM, Cape Coast)