Nuaso (E/R), March 25, GNA-Ghanaian traditional instruments are an essential part of the country’s rich cultural heritage, playing a vital role in communication, storytelling, ceremonies, and ...

The Dipo rite is an integral part of the Krobo culture. Over the years it has been used to inculcate useful values into adolescent girls as they prepare to assume their marital responsibilities. The ...

Every day, the Krobo tribe, like a lamb, is sent to the slaughter house for its cultural practices. This is intensified every April, as April ushers in the annual Dipo festival. This practice is ...

A raffia fibre is then tied around her neck to identify her as a 'Dipo-yo'. On Saturday morning the girls are given ritual bath after which they are made to taste non-krobo foods like sugar cane ...

The elders of Ogome in the Yilo Krobo Traditional Area of the Eastern Region have undertaken exclusive rituals to usher in the celebrations of this year's Dipo rites. Dipo is a rite of passage for ...

Krobo beads are precious stones that have stood the test of ... Leh, a reddish one is mainly for the dipo rite. It is also used for funerals. Tovi is an important black bead. In contrast, there is the ...

Certain ethnic groups also have rituals connected to waist beads. Krobo people participate in annual Dipo ceremonies where adolescent girls are initiated into adulthood, also known as a "rites of ...

"I don't see anything wrong with it," says 25-year-old Emmanuel Korley, one of the men who gathered to watch this year's dipo ceremony in Manya Krobo. "It's our culture - to show that when a lady ...