DIPO FESTIVAL IN SOMANYA.EASTERN REGION.GHANA

       Girls with calabash which contain sponge proceeding to the ‘Srendor’( name of a stream) for spiritual bath.

Jennifer, with a traditional hair cut was not left out.

    Young girls paraded under a tree for spiritual purification. This is a customary rite by the people Somenya in the Eastern part of Ghana to celebrate Dipo festival. Girls here are in their puberty rite ready to be ushered into womanhood.

SAVANNAH IMAGES

1.       Some children around a mud store which is been destroyed by rain in the Village of Kukobila in the Northern Region.

   At sunset in most villages in the Northern part of Ghana, young ladies with their mothers are seen busily preparing supper for the family, while the men gathered under tree (far left) sharing experience of the day. The photography shows some cooking pot on fire.

and brother sharing the same rock behind their family house with two bicycles belonging to elders of the community of Gushie, a village in Tamale

       A young boy spitting out peels of unripe mango fruit at Gushie, a village in Tamale, Regional capital of the North. Ghana.

  

 A young boy with siblings on bicycle coming from farm. The youngest is firmly grasped in the middle to prevent falling.

                                             Fire consumes Farmer Hope for survival.   

                             large quantity of soybeans and cow pea destroys.                                                                                                                                 

                                             

                                                ARE THESE FAMILY SAFE ON A BIKE    

                             Are our mothers safe on this means of transportation to the markets. Some seat on the food stuff and others forced to seat on the edges of the truck       

                                                                   JARA DANCE

                                     JARA dance by Tamale Youth home cultural group.

U.S AMBASSADOR VISIT TAMALE

Donald G. Teitelbaum USA Ambassador to Ghana exchanging pleasentries with Nanton Naa Sule Abdulei during his first time visit to the Northern Region.

Ecobank, Tamale Branch.



Mr. Philip Sowah(L) CEO of Airtel Ghana and other executives



Cultural troupe performing the Damba dance

·         Hon. Moses Bukari Mabengba (in Smock) the Northern Regional Minister assisted by Tamara Cook (2 from R) Programs Officer of BILL & MELINDA GATES foundation to officially cut the tape to commission the Ultra modern Banking hall in Tamale. With them are Mr. Nicholas Oko Sai (2 from L) Head of the banking supervision division, Bank of Ghana and Mr. Van Lere Dosoo (R) Board Chairman, Ecobank Ghana.

·        The guest enjoying a performers by the child and his troupe

COMMISSIONING OF TAMALE BRANCH AND LAUNCH OF Ecobankmobile MASS SAVINGS.

SAVANNAH SMOCK FASHION SHOW. Photos By Geoffrey Buta

                            1st president of Ghana wore this smock during the declaration of Independence

                                                                 The Egg Skirt

                                           wedding costumes blend with Smock

                                           The groom takes the bride

                                                             smock beach wear

Smock is an indigenous fabric for the people in the Northern region of Ghana. Its the production from cotton cultivation,spinning into yarns dyeing, weaving, sewing and marketing.